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AFAIK, this only affects the JavaScript-based communities.

I sincerely doubt one would find anything remotely similar in C++, Linux (C lang), or Assembly-programming communities.

The "harder" the language the less non-coding politics around.

When you have two people, you have politics. Nerds just have this ridiculous social signal where they have to pretend to be above it.

Nerds try to out-nerd each other. Which could be considered helpful since it could motivate people to go way over the top when designing code, perhaps also harmful if that results in over engineered code instead of good code.

I sincerely do believe that as technology has become more accessible and more "normal" people get into the industry, this has lead to things being more about politics and less about solving problems. Sometimes I even think that ordinary people like arguing and drama and willingly misunderstands each other just to not get bored. True aspie-nerds don't need this, they have other interesting things to fill their head with.

Alternatively, is it possible that "normal" people have problems that are generally not encountered in the experience of "aspie nerds"?

The necessity of Unicode is a great example of how a seemingly-straightforward technical design can prove inadequate once it needs to serve the full set of humanity.

A lot of "nerds" are autistic, you know? Not so much "above" politics as completely incapable of it (or at least extremely stressed out by the attempt such that they avoid it wherever possible.)

Nope. Django communities have been infected with this as well.

https://github.com/django/django/pull/2692

By default Git has this thing called a 'master branch', we should change that too.

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In my experience this is centered in San Francisco and is affecting any field, which is strong in that area.

> I sincerely doubt one would find anything remotely similar in a C++, Linux (C lang), or Assembly-programming communities.

The Linux world is full of commotion surrounding (written) language.

I mentioned the "non-coding" related politics which seem to be deeply rooted in JS-based communities.

r/php and php-fig has its own share of drama and toxicity

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