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Good luck finding a community of any significant size that hasn't had some drama in the past. Ruby, Python, and NodeJS have all had their fair share of issues.

• mythz 12y ago
  Name me another that's shown this much contempt to a core contributor? Joyent has never apologized to Ben or thanked him for his years of efforts (despite many from the node community and other contributors having done so).
  • astrodust 12y ago
    There's been lots of douchebaggery going on in other language communities. That it hasn't exploded into a giant fiasco is something of a small miracle.
• victorhooi 12y ago
  Actually, from what I've seen, the Node.JS community definitely seems more...immature, I don't deal much with them, but the Perl community definitely seems much more mature. And I deal more with the Python community, and they've always been decent and welcoming to all. The whole Joyent-crucifying-Ben fiasco, and the fallout showed that even though they might be adults, and core contributors, they weren't actually very mature, or even seem like particularly nice people. Maybe that's just how it played out, and behind closed doors, they're super nice people, but it certainly didn't do them any favours posting that inflammatory blog post of theirs.