It is quite reasonable to suspect that a technically proficient jerk in a comparatively tiny community means the community itself either tolerates or does not care about such behavior meaning there are probably many more.
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I'm fortunately that I'm friends with a lot of really friendly and charming Haskell programmers, because I've also met some really awful Haskell devs, and it's really hard to keep that from coloring my opinions on it. To a large extent it has, even though I'm aware of it.
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I've found something similar with F#. Maybe programming languages aren't a good foundation for building a community
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I think community is a really, _really_ hard problem in general. I'm trying to think of a programming community that Figured It Out and I'm coming up short.
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I've heard good things about the Rust community.
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The Rust community is doing quite a good job, but it doesn't have it all figured out yet. They had a really good opening keynote that described some of the current challenges, and what they are doing about it though: youtube.com/watch?v=J9OFQm - inspiring stuff!
I've also found to have done a great job at this, and have personally found the community to be quite welcoming. But I'm not sure how that translates globally. You have different problems depending on your scale.
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It just occurred to me that counts as a programming community, and I have only good experiences to report. I don't know if they've Figured It Out but they're the closest I've found.
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