1) When did this person insult him? Note that there was more than one microsoft person in that issue.
2) I don't get why so many people talk about this as if it were some horrible thing. I don't use my real name on discord the vast majority of the time, I don't see why you expect others to do so. The person in question admitted who they were when it was mentioned and later apologized for not stating it when they first joined.
3) I'm personally more mad about it not crediting the other terminals that have that kind of approach like wezterm, or whatever prior art they used.
My understanding is they thought DirectWrite did caching internally, which made the suggestion unnecessary, but it turned out that wasn't working quite as they thought it was. I didn't think the terminal people were combative at all until Casey himself was.
Ultimately, I think a big part of the outrage is just people assuming the worst interpretation of anything Microsoft.
2) I don't get why so many people talk about this as if it were some horrible thing. I don't use my real name on discord the vast majority of the time, I don't see why you expect others to do so. The person in question admitted who they were when it was mentioned and later apologized for not stating it when they first joined.
3) I'm personally more mad about it not crediting the other terminals that have that kind of approach like wezterm, or whatever prior art they used.
My understanding is they thought DirectWrite did caching internally, which made the suggestion unnecessary, but it turned out that wasn't working quite as they thought it was. I didn't think the terminal people were combative at all until Casey himself was.
Ultimately, I think a big part of the outrage is just people assuming the worst interpretation of anything Microsoft.