Gregory's Server@gakisstylianos @billjings What's abhorrent is his behaviour - choice of language, dumping on SkyDove's post, and behaviour on Mastodon Android repo.
In contrast, I remember the lead dev on Signal's Android repo refusing to adopt Kotlin a few years ago. He was curt, made it clear that it wasn't up for discussion, but never rude to contributors.
It's possible to stand up for unpopular choices without being a jerk.
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@gakisstylianos @billjings though the general rule of thumb increasingly seems like single contributor/decision-maker codebases suffer from this. People who were ahead of curve, but with no one to constructively challenge them, get stuck in their success.
I get this smell from a bunch of other places, like whenever I look up issues or PRs on ktlint.