And that response isn't very conducive to creating a community of people willing to help you on your open source project.

Too many egos getting in the way here guys. This is an all right project. Don't let disagreements on how to do things make it all fail. There are always better ways to do things and there are prototypes that do a lot of wrong things.

Now's the time to make the bad parts good. The code was just released, okay, now make it right.