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> uniquely thin-skinned

I have not found that. Occasionally, but rudeness, bullying, and intolerance is not tolerated.

Compared to the GNU world. Try reporting a bug in Emacs. "You complete idiot". Or Dog help us: OpenBSD.



Politeness and receptiveness are entirely orthogonal qualities. The Rust community is indeed mostly polite. That's a good thing I think, but it can paper over a good deal of dismissiveness (expressed as politely as a Victorian men's club sneer).




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