Man people who would bail out of the entire project just because of one of the members' likes or dislikes on his bio snippet are petty, please don't optimize for those people...
It's not some dramatic "bailing out of an entire project". A more realistic scenario would be:
> "Oh here, that link sounds interesting."
> "Hmm, another visual programing system, I wonder how it works."
> Read for a few minutes, then clicks link to the about page
> Reads part about hating javascript. "Huh.. I wonder why they hate it so much"
> Gets distracted, makes some coffee
> Comes back, and without really thinking about it, closes tab, and goes back to previous task
In this scenario, they might have possibly investigated further and checked the project out. Overall, most people probably won't care, but I would guess the statement is slightly net negative.
Taking a step back, this entire sub-thread is a fairly ridiculous bikeshedding, and I do feel a little bad about participating in it, heh.
JS devs encounter a lot of low effort BS/FUD from JS-haters who are clearly talking out of their ass or obviously haven't advanced their understanding of JS since 2005. If you're making something awesome, somebody's going to genuinely be interested if it's genuinely awesome regardless of their "fake language" background. So yeah, if I see "hates <literally any language>" in a profile, I'd probably assume the developer is pretentiously arrogant or will have the propensity to build a toxic community that focuses on bashing alternatives instead of building itself up.
