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Perhaps you don't feel you owe article authors better, but you owe this community better if you're participating in it.
Narcissism may also play a role but as a personality disorder it is incredibly difficult to manage and find support for.
Saying "drop your pride" to someone that you suspect of having NPD doesn't seem any more helpful to me than saying "just stop having obsessive thoughts" to someone with OCD. Besides sounding harsh, this attitude is probably not very useful or effective.
It may read this way to you but that’s the nature of blogs. They’re public diaries. Narcissism is often part of the medium itself.
The author has clearly had a rough time, and there’s no need for an internet pile-on. At the very least it’s not constructive and needlessly personal to label the author a narcissist as in the top level comment I’m responding to.
I’ve never fully understood the languagism stuff and I have openly mocked “… considered harmful” but maybe languagism should be considered harmful. Seriously, if you like writing software, isn’t the tooling a medium? Bad tools is no fun but you can still make software, you can solve problems, you can see it work, that’s what it’s about, right?
Many people cannot handle it and think it is the C++ community being obstructionist when in fact it is just that we all have different needs, the only thing in common is we need a language that we can use for our problem so you better not mess that up.
That's not an apology, that's an excuse, and there aren't many of those to justify treating people badly.
If you're active enough in a community that you'd need to explain something multiple times to multiple close contacts then isn't it the most efficient way to do it?
The exact same thing jumped out at me. Does anyone know if the author is a particularly well known or influential member of the C++ community?
The community is lessened by their departure
With the condescending airquotes and demeaning comment, one might think you had done some research. Clearly you hadn't. A Google search can tell you all of this.
No, this is clearly not enough to get shit accepted into the C++ standard. As evident by the fact that none of OP's ideas made it into the standard. Why should any of that matter?
I'm sure OP is not alone here, by the way. I submit there must be thousands of amazing ideas proposed by amazing people that don't end up being accepted into the standard for a myriad of reasons. Get over it.
Yet another person on here who didn't read the article.
> Multi-argument indexing made it into the C++23 standard, and so did std::byteswap. That’s my legacy I guess.
Nothing weird about this.