Being the BDFL of a rapidly growing programming language has its benefits. Even Rasmus Lerdorf has an impressive CV, despite a public attitude of negativity tow

Being the BDFL of a rapidly growing programming language has its benefits. Even Rasmus Lerdorf has an impressive CV, despite a public attitude of negativity towards programming. If Datomic achieves widespread success with both community and enterprise editions, Rich Hickey would have an impressive range of opportunities. The man, however, is far more accomplished than I so I can only assume he's thought of that and firmly rejected it. Perhaps, although he wants to see his kids go through college, he also wants to be a big part of their lives. Perhaps 2 massive, popular over source projects would get in the way of that.