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>Scheme may be a small island, but when it has an earthquake, it makes waves through the whole archipelago of programming languages.

It's more like people are addicted to drama. Following something like this when you don't use Scheme is like watching reality TV. It's human nature.

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this, if you had not know what r7rs was untill a few days agor, or still don't, hit 'hide'

> people are addicted to drama

Is this an currently escalating tendency or has it always been like this? I mean the human nature has always been there but is our current social media landscape amplifying it to 11?

Somewhat related, I think, is the argument about 'victimhood culture'. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Rise_of_Victimhood_Culture (The Wikipedia article doesn't cite any criticism, unfortunately). Roughly, it argues that society has progressed from "up to victim to restore their own honour" to "society restores dignity to all". And then 'victimhood culture' would be an over-correction where people seek to be victims.

I could believe that society has changed the way it approaches conflict. But, I'd think social media stuff changes the shape of traffic/attention.

I would think people are not inclined to be curious to hear both sides of some conflict.

The issue here is that the current generation of programmers seem to want political power more than doing actual work. Everyone and their grandmother saw the huge decline in quality between r5rs and r7rs. The people who wanted to do stuff created racket. The people who want to rule a graveyard stuck with the rnrs process.

Seeing this happen to scheme whose whole purpose is the ability to create languages is bizarre. I can understand a fight like this over gcc or Linux,a fork there isn't something a single person can do as a weekend job. Scheme on the other had is absolutely something a single dev can design and implement in a few months worth of weekends.

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