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I think this is a little bit unfair. The comment refers to the Mojo specific use of [], not to regular Python. It also starts saying

> I know I shouldn’t say so but I can’t help...

Remarking that the comment should not be taken too seriously, as it might be inappropriate.

Finally, saying the whole community is condescending given 1 in 32 comments is... a little rounding up from the statistics there.

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Seems like we are speaking from different experiences. As someone who witnessed multiple requests like “please avoid hyperbole when it comes to criticizing other languages” in Slack, Discourse or Twitter, I interpret “I know I shouldn’t say so” differently.

I would say 1 in 32 is also about the experience. I stopped visiting Discourse, chatting in Slack because I found it exhausting that every time Python is mentioned someone came up with a different way of saying how much they hate Python. I know I wasn’t the only one disturbed by this but in the end communities make their own choices.

Sorry about missing the mojo specific [].

Someone feeling the need to bash other languages is universal. For example, every Julia post here has people bashing it, in a way that is often tangential to the topic of the post. I'm actually surprised this thread doesn't have someone complaining about 1-based indexing in Julia.

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