If I wasn’t restricted to mobile I would have made the thread after it was suggested @everythingfunctional @certik
I suspect the response will be better if the post is long winded with links to whatever discussions happened and everything, which is just history I don’t have.
It will be good to have an open discussion about it though. Honestly I’m somewhat surprised the idea of “design by committee” hasn’t already evolved to longer, open design and discussion periods followed by 3-6 month voting periods, all done in public spaces like this or GitHub. Development is slow regardless, so allow maximum participation for discussion, design, and voting by as many users as possible. I would strongly disagree with the notion that “programming language users don’t know what they want.”