I sadly agree that "lone-ego-superstar programmers not willing to cooperate" are more prominent in the CL world than in some others. (Edit: "semi-autistic prick

I sadly agree that "lone-ego-superstar programmers not willing to cooperate" are more prominent in the CL world than in some others. (Edit: "semi-autistic pricks" is the term that comes to my mind. Still, many of us are not like that.) I'm also willing to believe that the Clojure community is refreshingly different in this respect. But I don't buy that "living inside the image" has anything to do with this, or at least anything to do with causing it, and I especially don't buy that a technical limitation of Clojure/JVM constitutes some sort of virtue.