They threw people out of the community if they even created forks of the language, and they literally hard coded in their buddies' projects to use compiler feat

They threw people out of the community if they even created forks of the language, and they literally hard coded in their buddies' projects to use compiler features that everyone else couldn't. "Rules for thee but not for me" does not inspire much confidence in using a new niche language, much less using it in production.