People claiming Andrew Kelley's remarks in this thread can't possibly be personal attacks surprise and sadden me.

If someone insults your ability to do your job, paints you as an opportunistic sellout, and thanks the stars for your riddance, saying someone shouldn't feel hurt because "we can separate personal from professional lives" says more about your inability to perceive your own hurtfulness than it does of that person's benevolence.

The minimum bar for tactful communication is to be courteous and empathetic. None of this had that.

This post obliterated any chance I had to use or condone Zig commercially. If this is how Zig leadership thinks and acts, plus their stance on AI and GitHub, I'm afraid that the language will stay archived as a neat PL research project in my mind.

And maybe it's what Andrew wants.