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Does your favourite programming language have a good community?

How much of a role does the community play in your choice of language (or framework/tool/whatever)?

What does community mean when it comes to a language?

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Jake Casto

The PHP community is all over the place, we tend to argue over code formatting and tabs vs spaces more than we do anything else.

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Ghost

I have been involved with many programming language communities over the years, but of the finest I have ever been involved with is the Ruby community. They are helpful and offer so much up to the community as a whole. ""Matz is nice so we are nice." is what it is all about.

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Ben Halpern

I went to my first major Ruby event, this year's Railsconf, and I was very pleased by the community spirit.

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Ghost

That's so awesome Ben. Perfect example of what I am talking about. :-)

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Ross Henderson

It's difficult to say. I've been able to find the answer for every question I've ever thought of, but a lot of it comes wrapped up a level of elitism. This is Oracle SQL and the APEX Community.

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edA‑qa mort‑ora‑y

Arrogance and elitism are the worst thing that can happen to any community.