We have different style of communication. You are obviously more sensitive to the style of writing than I’m. You are correct I could have style my answer differently.
I was trying to address the two points he made for other candidates. He used strong language and I just addressed his exact words.
As you said, in your earlier comment, we would not work well together.
You can choose to "win" the argument, or you can choose to learn.
> I quoted it to make a point not to take a stab at him.
"For JS projects, we ask candidates to use immutable.js, which has 27k stars on github, which most wont' consider as obscure"
vs.
"... the “obscure” library is immutable.js, one with _mere_ (emphasis mine) 27k+ stars on github."
Quotes are used for snark in this context, and you know this as well as I do.