While I don&#x27;t doubt the author&#x27;s claims about the CL community being unwelcoming, my admittedly anecdotical experience with it was very different:<p>I wrote a small utility library this year (cl-strings) as my first ever open source project, showed it on #lisp and r&#x2F;lisp asking for feedback, and received mostly encouraging comments and very constructive criticism.<p>I&#x27;ve also made some PR&#x27;s to jscl as a complete newbie to the project, and felt very welcomed.<p>Hopefully this meme about the CL community is taken with a grain of salt, it certainly is not true universally.