I don't know Steve Klabnik or Corey Haines (or any of the other people mentioned in the post), but I just lost a lot of respect for them.

If I do come across them (in a forum, in person etc), I'll remember more about how they tend to make disparaging comments about people on the internet rather than any code on github.

Lastly, kudos to you for writing code, solving a problem and putting it out there. I think is great what you're doing and you should ignore non-constructive criticism.