This is going to be borderline off-topic as it's not general for developers. I have to mention #clojure on freenode for being an incredibly welcoming IRC chan

This is going to be borderline off-topic as it's not general for developers. I have to mention #clojure on freenode for being an incredibly welcoming IRC channel. The discussions you will see can be very interesting, and the community is more than often willing to help. Living in Japan, I was worried about the timezones being an issue, but there seems to be people from different parts of the world on the channel, making it very nice.