Medical condition is a very different thing from a mental illness though. I'm quite sure there aren't mental _illnesses_ which last 1-2 days like Stockholm syndrome does.

>Suggesting everyone using C++ isn't capable of properly evaluating it (which the comment author can clearly tell from the outside, for every use case) is "not derogatory"?

I see it more as "I wonder if they have given other languages a chance?". There's definitely a lot of C++ devs who aren't giving for example Rust a try, and don't see the negatives of C++ because they haven't experienced anything else lately.

If anything, it was derogatory towards C++, not the devs.