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🫣 He Got Banned For Mentioning Other Programming Language
Life gives opportunities to make a lot of mistakes. But mentioning Kotlin in a Java group may cause a disaster
Imagine that. You devote your whole career to master programming and specifically one particular programming language.
You write books, are involved in development of that language, build stuff around it, share your knowledge and bam!
You’re banned from a group for programmers.
That’s what happened to Kevin Bourrillion, one of the most prominent persons in the Java community.
Kevin worked for Google for almost two decades, co-authored Java Google Style Guide, was a representative for the Valhalla project, founded Guava, just to name few of his acomplishments.
It’s however enought to state that Kevin Bourrillion is a significant contributor to the Java community.
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Three days ago he shared a message he got from the moderators of the Java subreddit.
Subreddit is like a Facebook group in the old days. Each subreddit has its own subject, rules and moderators. Subreddits are hosted by the Reddit website, a social media like platform.
The Java subreddit particularly has 327 thousand members. It doesn’t mean they’re all active, but the number is high.
The message Kevin received looked as follows:
What we can learn from the message is that Kevin got a permanent ban. It means he won’t be able to participate in this group ever again.
Also, we learned he got a ban for a comment. It means that someone posted something in this group, Kevin commented it, and got banned.
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The moderator asks also about what’s unclear for Kevin and offensively asks him to brag in the Kotlin subreddit. Kotlin subreddit is a subreddit for other JVM language, Kotlin, that competes with Java.
