That's not what he said though. He said that being hostile to users is the quickest way to kill a language. Now I don't know much about the Clojure language or

That's not what he said though. He said that being hostile to users is the quickest way to kill a language. Now I don't know much about the Clojure language or community, but that post from Yegge was over 4 years old. You say that it's growing and I'll take you at your word, but had it reached critical mass at 2011? 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. Maybe things have changed. Maybe the hostility wasn't as bad as what he thought, I don't know. But the comments in that thread aren't hyperbolic if you're associating them with the state of things today.