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I find this type of posts unproductive, somewhat emotionally exhausting, and generally impolite.

Most of the time open source tools are a labor of love. If the tool is not for you, move on. But self-aggrandizing "this tool is not good enough for me" posts, when you have not contributed, and when you disregard the fact that the tool has been immensely helpful to many others (who might have even started contributing back) just creates negativity in the world for no good reason. Nothing good is created in posts like that (and no, such posts are not constructive critique).

And then there are "the language is dying" complaints -- I consider these the worst of all. A tool does not need to be the most popular tool to be useful. Let's stop chasing hockey-stick curves in all human endeavors.

(to prevent claims of sour grapes: I am not a Scala user, I just find this type of posts distasteful, no matter the target)

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+1000.

A vast majority of posts and comments here shows a classic case of consumerism. I want this. I want that. This sucks. That sucks. Well, what are you bringing to the community?

There is this weird kind of amnesia with open source tools where people forget that these open source projects are a labor of love by small communities. They are developing the projects for themselves, their community. Are you part of that community or are you outside it? If you're outside the community, it shouldn't surprise you when the tool doesn't perfectly work for you. I sometimes feel that many of these people would be better off buying commercial tools and pay for support.

You are right to find that post unproductive, somewhat emotionally exhausting, and generally impolite.

And I have a similar opinion of comments like yours critizing the post from a person that explains their personal feelings, opinions and judgements about a piece of tech.

If you feel personally attacked when reading criticism about a lenguage/ecosystem you love take into account that people have different ways to think about programming.

You like a language that is the epitome of "more is more" and there are some people that prefer "less is more".

In my post I actually made a number of (seemingly unclear) claims diametrically opposite to what you surmise I claimed in my original post.

doesn't mean those posts should not exist.

that's a guy sharing his honest experience on his personal blog. you have the choice to simply not read the article. it was pretty obvious from the start what it would be, there was no click-baiting.

these posts also provide an honest pulse on reality. for this same reason i won't say your post "just creates negativity in the world for no good reason". your post gives some kind of feedback on what some real people think. my post is just meta+1 on this honestly.

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