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I have no idea how people convince themselves to contribute to open source and/or participate regularly in online discourse. It’s basically working really hard for the easiest-to-offend and least-likely-to-appreciate-anything-you-do people on earth, so they can throw shade at everything you do, and then get mad because you did something different than they would have done.

FWIW, I appreciate everything you all are doing, even the stuff I’m not using right now. You all don’t hear it enough, and you’re certainly not getting paid enough for what you’re doing.

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I contribute loads to open source too.

It’s actually not that hard to do so without talking trash about other projects. In fact I find those kind of comparisons are often the laziest and least researched ways of promoting a particular project as anyone who’s spent any time dissecting other peoples work in detail (not just running ‘ps’ in another TTY) will usually gain an appreciation for the hard work and design decisions that have gone into competing solutions.

But that’s just the opinion of one guy who has been contributing to the open source community for the last two decades. ;)

> talking trash about other projects

Cleverly fabricated and blown out of proportions. Yes, 2 decades of rich experience sure teaches that!

To clear the context for others, you are talking about a list of performance numbers here, and as I said, I am yet to come across figures that can challenge the current one.

The author of the other project did challenge them though. Hence this entire thread ;)

Yes, and he has received pointers on how he can reduce memory usage in his program (an issue he mentioned exists).

Actually what he said was he knew memory was a problem but it is designed for a different use case. The key part being the bit you’ve conveniently left off.

Your comments come across as very arrogant (particularly considering you’ve not reviewed the other projects source code) and intentionally deceptive too. While I’m normally the first to defend open source developers - because I know first hand how thankless it can be at times - you’re doing exactly to others as you ask not to be done to yourself. Which is not fair at all.

Anyhow, this is all a sorry distraction away from what should have been the real point of this HN submission; and I’m angry at myself for allowing myself to get dragged into this whole sorry affair. so I’m going to log off HN for the rest of the day to avoid any further temptation.

I do sincerely wish you the best with this and your other projects. It should be the code that speaks for itself rather than any other politics and that’s not been the case here for either your project nor the others it has been compared against. But let’s move on and get back to writing code :)

> Actually what he said was he knew memory was a problem but it is designed for a different use case. The key part being the bit you’ve conveniently left off.

No, read the other thread where I said his use case can be satisfied at much less memory usage. There's nothing arrogant in suggesting there's a more efficient way to achieve something.

Yes, let's get back to work. Loads of feature requests to cater to, thanks to this share. :)

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