> They are setting up their users for disillusionment and disappointment. There's nothing wrong with communities promoting themselves. If people don't know abo

> They are setting up their users for disillusionment and disappointment. There's nothing wrong with communities promoting themselves. If people don't know about your thing, they can't try it to make their own decisions about whether or not it is worth using. And it isn't yours or a community leader's or a maintainer's job to protect users from disillusionment and disappointment. If someone actually has a hard fall from realizing that a programming language isn't as great as people said it might be, there are way bigger issues there than the programming language at play -- on the side of the disillusioned, not the language/community.