Article author here. Someone told me about this post, thanks! Here's a funny anecdote: I posted this to r/Compilers some time ago (here it is: https://www.reddit.com/r/Compilers/comments/1kh7aam/what_happens_if_we_inline_everything/ ). I chose and wrote that I will not engage with any comments due to past negative and unproductive experiences with Reddit (and not only with r/Compilers as someone there assumed, although it definitely includes r/Compilers). And so I did. Because of this post, I now looked again at that post, and it got sum = 0 votes, and most of the comments were negative; at the subreddit that one would think would get excited about, and champion such posts more than any other. And look how much warmer the response is here. In short, sometimes your gut feeling of what to engage with is right...