You are right, sorry about that. I've used screenshots provided by someone and didn't take a close look at each of them (I already had one report like that and taken action immedietely).
If you find anything else, please let me know, I'm one of the maintainers. Picture removed.
That was fast! Thanks for taking the concern seriously.
It may seem like a small thing, but content that literally says "we expect you to already know Emacs and Symbolics, if you used something else, piss off" is a major turn-off.
Given that you lisp, you're probably familiar with Emacs or the symbolics lisp machine. This environment shares some of its modality with these systems and is modeled (rather imperfectly), in their image.
that's too optimistic for sure, but how is it a turn-off without you putting different words into author's mouth?
You conveniently left out the preceding sentence which is of the format "X, Y and Z can stop reading now" -- and whoever is left is assumed to already know Emacs or Symbolics.
no, i very narrowly responded to the content of your comment, because no matter how much of dick the guy may be (i have no idea but the screenshot certainly gave away a very imature impression), you, instead of attacking that preceding sentence, instead twisted the next one unfavorably.
your claim literally says "we expect you to already know Emacs and Symbolics, if you used something else, piss off" is bullshit, figuratively speaking. i just wanted to point out that your high horse of niceness is not so high or nice if you need to lean on slandering people. that's all. i don't know the guy or the software.
Symbolics is long dead, and Emacs lost the edtor wars. A modern developer coming to Lisp would much rather use Sublime, Visual Studio Code, or even vim with appropriate plugins. This set of assumptions is increasingly invalid.
Who are you to speak for everyone? Did vim users and emacs users meet on ye old battlefield and now the emacs users have to slink off in defeat and delete their emacs configs because more people use vim?
In reality there is plenty of support for both to continue.
Oh yeah Lisp is the only community with hostile individuals. Every sizeable community has such people and one must know to avoid them. It's hostile in itself to derive ideas about communities themselves from indiviudals' behaviour.
Lisp's hostile reputation dates back to when most language discussions happened on comp.lang.lisp on Usenet and the toxic environment created by Erik Naggum and his acolytes. It's a hard reputation to shake, apparently, seeing that it's a subject that still comes up decades later.
If it's in the project's official screenshots (under the heading "Get excited"), it's not unreasonable to assume that it's representative of the project community.
If you find anything else, please let me know, I'm one of the maintainers. Picture removed.