That "Hexstream" guy is a known mentally ill person who harasses other Lisp community members in various ways (github, twitter, his personal website, exposing other lispers' personal information, etc.)
He is alone and doesn't represent the community in any way.
HexstreamSoft is one guy who decided to piss off just about everyone he could in the Lisp community, then his Twitter account got locked and everyone stopped caring.
Xah Lee is a well known usenet troll. He entered my killfile many, many years ago for his ranting against Python, Vim, Emacs, Lisp, and everything else under the sun.
If you look at their post history here and their github profile it's pretty obviously a troll. Claiming in this (copypasta style?) post that Linux destroyed their computer, but in another comment saying how much they love bash programming. In one comment they grew up playing Roblox, in another they have decades of experience across multiple programming languages including C++, Rust, Lisp, and Python.
This push did not involve any consultation with any community. He has never contributed anything to Perl 6, let alone Raku. He continues to use Larry's image and calling him a "saint", without his consent. He does not listen to other people.
In other words: he's doing Perl the worst possibly favour.
I saw one of the other issues that this user spammed the repo with[0] and it said they'd tweeted the issue. Following that trail I found their twitter account[1] where they just seem to be either a hateful person or someone with a mental illness.
I think there is honestly something wrong with that guy in a mild "losethos" sort of way. He started spamming me trollish nonsense in PMs because I dared utter a single line while he was active.
Something about golang just seems to attract a certain flavor of nutters.
But he's actually not knowledgeable or good at what he does -- if you view his Github page, you'll see that his projects are 100-line thefts or wrappers around other people's work.
He's been a major drain/drag on the Node.js community, and makes the IRC channel a toxic wasteland for a good part of the day.
You know... they could be just another malicious actor. I mean they appeal to emotions, github is not showing them as active in the community, pseudonym without any details in the profile. And by malicious actor I do not mean that they are trying to gain access, they could be just trolling Larhzu.
That's both funny and an evil character assassination. If you leave his career of trolling usenet aside, he does in fact write good tutorials on Emacs, Linux, Mathematics and Lisp (even though he hates them all.)
Xah Lee: programming's most prolific troll. He's jobless, living in a car in the SF area, and probably has a restraining order preventing him from approaching any employees of Wolfram Research (the only language he likes is Mathematica, apparently).
For great laughs, check out his page on hiring a hooker in Nevada.
He wrote an article a while back insulting the morals of a few colleagues in the Haskell world. When I went to share it with said colleagues I realised he had an account on our internal slack. He had previously worked there on said technologies that he was then slandering, something he hadn't made public.
To be honest I think the person he is is part of why the FSF GNU succeeded in some sense, he is a radical and often radicals can further change more quickly than any other kind of person.
That said he is very weird and some part of me thinks he would be annoying to hang around with but he always seem to be at least somewhat polite online.
And on the python mailing lists. The last I recall seeing that name was in context of crowd funding after going through some tough times. It was quite sad. Hope things are better now.
He is alone and doesn't represent the community in any way.
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