That&#x27;s not what he said though.<p>He said that being hostile to users is the quickest way to kill a language. Now I don&#x27;t know much about the Clojure language or community, but that post from Yegge was over 4 years old. You say that it&#x27;s growing and I&#x27;ll take you at your word, but had it reached critical mass at 2011?<p>Yegge is a languages guy. He knows some of what it takes to make a language successful, and one of the main things is advertising. Being hostile to users is the worst possible form of advertisement. That was his critique 4 years ago.<p>Maybe things have changed. Maybe the hostility wasn&#x27;t as bad as what he thought, I don&#x27;t know. But the comments in that thread aren&#x27;t hyperbolic if you&#x27;re associating them with the state of things today.