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What do you mean by "motivational?" Are you talking about how the creator is against adding new features to the language? I actually think that's perfectly fine. One of my favorite things about Odin is the simplicity; the entire language and all of its rules can be understood by reading the Odin overview document. I'm actually thrilled to have a creator that doesn't want to bloat the language.

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No, suppose you make a contribution to a project and its creator belittles you instead of providing constructive criticism, for example. This contribution is not a new feature to the language, however, perhaps a 3rd-party library.

It has nothing to do with adding new features. I agree with you, I do not want the language to be bloated, nor do I want new features blindly added. I prefer simplicity, too.

FWIW you can see him losing his "cool" on Discord, too, at times.

You should back those claims with something more than handwaving.

I am not trying to make him look bad. I just simply stated my reasons for hesitancy when it comes to contributing to the language. At any rate, his messages are available on Discord (unless deleted) and the pull requests are out there too, on GitHub.

I do not intend to have a collection of all the times he lost his cool.

Well, with your unsubstantiated claims, you are making him look bad, regardless of your intentions.

Yeah, but it would be even worse if I collected everything about him, that would even lean towards obsession.

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