On 12 Oct 2012, Darrell Anderson stated:
Most disconcerting to me was the absolute lack of any positive commentary whatsoever. Is this really what FOSS has turned into?
I hope not. :-)
Considering the nature of the Phoronix web site, I imagine readers and forum participants are bleeding edge types. Anything determined to be "old" by such people means obsolete and a waste of time. "Old" things are not "shiny."
Phoronix also specializes in (usually really, really bad) benchmarks. "Old" also means "slow" to these people -- even though new software is almost always slower than old software, they imagine that a constant process of fierce optimization has actually sped it up, and the power of the placebo effect takes over.
Wrappers are also especially bad, because, y'know, it's a function call and they are really expensive, right? (Er, no.)