the only experience of a GNU projject community I have is #guix

As for #guile I never met personally anyone

But I thin I'm beginning to grasp what people mean whhen they say that #gnu is a toxic community

I'm beginning to think that I should stop suggesting people to use GNU tools and engaging with their communities

Even when they treat you well and answer your questions, they still manage to make you feel like an idiot

@arunisaac

the #guix community surely is NOT toxic

Quite the opposite ! It's the sanest community I have ever found

The #Guile community, on the other hand, I'm sorry to say, is toxic

Now, let me expand a bit on this in the next few toots

@arunisaac

as fo Guix, e few months back we had a problem on the guix mailing list. Someone was hostile to a non gender binary community member

The mantainer were adamant in enforcing the behavioral code.

And the culprit was a quite prolific contributor. He hasn't been since then

Also another contributor went away, because he felt the Guix environment was "radical"

He is a contributor to other GNU projects now

@arunisaac

Like child abusing clerics, if you were hostile to minorities in a GNU group, you can always move to another one

@arunisaac

Now, coming to Guile.

The guile community is toxic

In a couple of occasions I have been reprimanded

A a way smaller number off occasions I have been helped

You might argue that the reprimands were deserved

I won't go into that

I juust want to make a few notes

@arunisaac

Guile is a failure

It completely missed its aim to extend the Emacs model to all GNU software and even to non GNU software at that

The only meaningful Guile based project is Guix

And the Guix founder is the former Guile mantainer

The guile community is asphyctic

The collection of guile based projects is ridicule.

Nothing meaningful is made with Guile

Because Guile is NOT for everybody

Guile is the reign of smugness and elitarism