This feels like damage control to me. While your explanation is always possible, that board moved much slower than HN's front page so the idea that the post somehow got lost in the mix when he was actively involved in several other posts sitting on the front page is stretching things a bit (in my opinion).

But that isn't even the important point. The deficiencies I outlined haven't been been revisited have they?

If not, it would seem my distrust wasn't so misplaced, and that was the bigger point.

Who knows, maybe the rest of the stdlib has had more thought put into it, but that was the first bit of the stdlib I had dove into the source for and what I saw wasn't good. I didn't want to do that for the rest of the stdlib either.

If Araq has become the bottleneck, then maybe something needs to change in your process, because as you can clearly see I offered to be the one to make the changes.

And to be clear, I'm not angry about it, I just chose to spend my time elsewhere. Intentional or not, the language dev's as a whole could be doing a better job getting other people involved.