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This appears to be the source of the backlash:

https://izzys.casa/2024/11/on-safe-cxx/



To save anyone else the time:

> Andrew Tomazos submitted P3403, a paper titled “The Undefined Behavior Question” (which HOOBOY man we’re just knocking it out of the fucking park with possible anti-semitic dog whistles today aren’t we?)

Riiiight. To be fair apart from that their criticism of Tomasoz seems relatively justifiable, if unnecessarily angry. Tomasoz has said that "almost noone" has ever written anything productive in Rust, which is a stupid thing to say. And he thinks ChatGPT is on par with humans now, which is also pretty obviously untrue.

Idiots all round.


"which HOOBOY man we’re just knocking it out of the fucking park with possible anti-semitic dog whistles today aren’t we"

No. Absolutely not. No reasonable person would consider the title to be that.


This is one of the most toxic blogs I’ve ever read - so much swearing, vile hate while criticizing various persons they dislike, rambling incoherence. Wow.

And their specific criticisms of the contributor this post is discussing, are very mild but full of personal attacks and expletives?


The entire article is a lot of name calling for many C++WG members for sexual harassers, rapists, hate speakers etc.

It argues that C++WG made various mistakes and full of incompetent members by presenting various seemingly technical topics but it's so random and unorganized it's hard to follow.

It doesn't make sense at all.


Wow - I cant think anyone would spend such a long time on how everyone but themselves is wrong.

It started out interesting, but was simply a long rambling text where there seems to be no point


while not the direct subject of this issue, that blog post is completely unhinged.

as a sibling comment said: "idiots all around".

or perhaps simply extremely bad at interpreting and handling social skills and emotions.


Absolutely unhinged rant accusing everyone of being some kind of Nazi or sexual predator. Seeing the "content warning" and design of the page should already be enough to know exactly what to expect about what you are about to read, and what kind of person wrote it.


Is making note of the fact that an individual was convicted of raping a child now the same as "accusing everyone of being some kind of Nazi or sexual predator"?

Do you have some information that would lead to doubt on Arthur's conviction?

Can you elaborate on what "sort of person" means exactly? Is that just to refer to people who point out that someone in a community has raped a child, been convicted of raping a child and is on a sex offenders register? Or some other category?

I think it's troubling that so many people in the replies are seemingly more offended over some swear words than the literal rape of a child.


Sex offender information is public so we can keep those people far away from children. There aren't any children on the C++ standards committee. You can actually be criminally prosecuted if you use someone's status to harass or injure them. So the organizers weren't really protecting him, they were protecting themselves.


What kind of a person wrote it?




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