This is indeed not at all about his code. I don't care what he thinks of vaccines and COVID - I just as much don't care what Linus Torvalds thinks about these things. They are damn programmers. Their business is to ship reliable, usable, secure software.
I got permanently banned from the Raku community rather silently. What happened, what is the common history, and honestly, what is the path forward for those who stay.
This post is mostly meant to reach out to the community itself from this exiled state - therefore generic Raku banter isn't very welcome, and neither are further invalidation attempts from the people personally involved in my ban: they have had plenty of representation and there is no reason to assume we can have a meaningful discourse.
It's a bit ironic that now we went down the static rabbit hole so much that we don't realize it's more the opposite: by adding more to your language and compiler to enforce static checks, you turn the compiler itself more and more into a runtime that you are just going to run ahead of time, according to a potentially vastly different set of rules compared to your real runtime. There is no reason why you couldn't do something like this by will but it's just not worth it after a certain point clearly.