- Works 5 years on something he hates
- No proof (links, anything) that prove what he's stating
- Quits and supports the other vendor, knowing there's internet quarrel between <insert-db-name> vs <insert-other-db-name>, nice going there. Real grown up.
- Leaves to work for largest spyware company on the planet
This sounds like one of those people everyone on HN say to avoid in job environment.
If you really cared about the topic, you'd see beyond your favorite language getting rekt, because let's be honest - it's shit because of people who are using it.
And that's why we can't have nice things - shortsighted manchildren like you are making it impossible.
You missed the date in the comment of the C file: 2001-09-15
Back then, there weren't bazillion web servers out there. A patchy server was still.. patchy. And engine that solves problem X (c10k) was not created yet :)
(for whoever reads my comment, I am referring to Apache and nginx)