That guy's face on the screen is creeeepy af though...

If you find anything else, please let me know, I'm one of the maintainers. Picture removed.

There is still some snark in the screenshots on the site but nothing I found too off putting.

It may seem like a small thing, but content that literally says "we expect you to already know Emacs and Symbolics, if you used something else, piss off" is a major turn-off.

Given that you lisp, you're probably familiar with Emacs or the symbolics lisp machine. This environment shares some of its modality with these systems and is modeled (rather imperfectly), in their image.

that's too optimistic for sure, but how is it a turn-off without you putting different words into author's mouth?

Please don't defend him, especially via these kind of tactical omissions.

your claim literally says "we expect you to already know Emacs and Symbolics, if you used something else, piss off" is bullshit, figuratively speaking. i just wanted to point out that your high horse of niceness is not so high or nice if you need to lean on slandering people. that's all. i don't know the guy or the software.

The editor wars are not over yet. Emacs is still winning over new users, as is vim, and both are growing and improving all the time.

"A modern developer coming to Lisp would much rather use Sublime, Visual Studio Code, or even vim with appropriate plugins."

They might until they see the power of emacs tools like slime and paredit.

In reality there is plenty of support for both to continue.

Not really offensive unless you identify as Smalltalk (called a "toy"), or C++ (called a "cancerous abstraction"), but kind of shrill and not a good way to present the project.

Welcome to the wonderful world of Common Lisp, and beware: CL is addictive like a hard drug!