I don't know that much about nix but this seems like a mess
That guy is such a fucking reddit debate bro holy shit. The people engaging with him are saints for putting up with his bullshit.
I have zero faith in a community/organisation that does not immediately bans people like this from participating.
It's always a bit more difficult with communities that run on volunteer labor. I've also experienced this IRL with some outdoor volunteering groups. If someone is volunteering a lot of labor for free it makes it more difficult to bring down the banhammer for things that they say. You hope to volunteer your own labor engaging with them and so maintain the benefits of their undeniable contributions to the community without having to deal with the downsides of them potentially driving other volunteers away.
While a lot of this manifests as having to deal with reddit debate bros these volunteer communities do also work well as places for neuroatypicals, since people are willing to forgive quite a lot of social awkwardness if you're just putting in the work.
The people engaging with him are saints for putting up with his bullshit.
They could stand to put up with it a lot less, tbh
Better to expose these assholes now before they harm the Nix community even further.
I've submitted patches to Guix and they are much nicer. Most likely due to it being a vastly smaller project and a tight knit community.
Also helps that Guix uses entirely free tooling and only distributes free software.
