[smsm42]

One guy says "I was lambasted on Reddit", no link, no proof, no hearing the other side, no any substantiation anything actually happened even.

Immediate conclusion: "community is full of assholes, unwilling to change".

This escalated quickly, didn't it?

[latexr]

The person you’re replying to isn’t suggesting cURL is that community. See another comment on this thread which makes that clear:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46720626

Rather they seem to be arguing “if there is a community that is like that (whatever that community is)…”.

[perching_aix]

I see @latexr pretty much addressed this, but see this other comment of mine also (and note the timestamps!): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46719667

I was speaking in general terms. No such conclusions were drawn.