As a Nix team member, I do feel betrayed.
Eelco doesn’t talk about these things, ever.
Two weeks ago I asked about his Planet Nix talk
iirc you’ll be presenting about configurable flakes at Planet Nix. Could we have a peek and give feedback?
Said he would, never heard back. Massive topic, huge impact on UX. Nothing.
Whatever Eelco says and does, you have to assume it is merely his own opinion.
We’ve tried to fix that with the Nix team, and we were “on track”, accepting more contributions, working with Eelco in a respectful manner, but he has still managed to cause division and fragmentation.
Today I find myself on the demonized end of an unnecessary divide. Those who took a different approach, I used to blame more for failing to collaborate, but now I blame them equally.
I guess that’s progress.
I didn’t sign up for this (just tried to help), but here I am talking about blame. It’s sad, but nonetheless I’m still hopeful that we can keep working together as a community.