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LLVM Contributor Quits Citing Inclusivity Intolerance

posted by martyb on Friday May 04 2018, @08:50AM   Printer-friendly
from the Nice-Big-CoC dept.

An Anonymous Coward writes:

Rafael Avila de Espindola, one of the top contributors to the LLVM compiler toolset, has cut ties with the open source project over what he perceives as code of conduct hypocrisy and support for ethnic favoritism. In a message posted to the LLVM mailing list, de Espindola said he was leaving immediately and cited changes in the community.

LLVM project founder, Chris Lattner responded; "I applaud Rafael for standing by his personal principles, this must have been a hard decision." Lattner also insisted that "it is critical to the long term health of the project that we preserve an inclusive community."

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  • (Score: 2) by PiMuNu on Friday May 04 2018, @10:53PM (1 child)

    by PiMuNu (3823) on Friday May 04 2018, @10:53PM (#675899)

    > Perhaps you read TFA?

    I was responding to GP who said something like "I don't care if the guy acts like an asshat, as long as their work is good". So if the work is good, but the guy is just vile, to the point where people don't want to work on the project, I think that is an issue. I was responding to the discussion, not the article.

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  • (Score: 3, Insightful) by Arik on Saturday May 05 2018, @01:14AM

    by Arik (4543) on Saturday May 05 2018, @01:14AM (#675930) Journal
    "So if the work is good, but the guy is just vile, to the point where people don't want to work on the project"

    How does he even have the opportunity to be so 'vile' if he's working on code? Where does he even find the time?

    This is not about 'vile' people, it's about socially retarded technically gifted geeks being chased out of our last safe places by people who think their social skills entitle them to rule over us.
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