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> Rich Hickey's conflict with the Clojure community over overly biasing Clojure towards Datomic's interest I’m not sure I would describe it that way. I don’t k
by keymone 7y ago
> Rich Hickey's conflict with the Clojure community over overly biasing Clojure towards Datomic's interest
I’m not sure I would describe it that way. I don’t know of anything in Clojure language that is biased towards Datomic’s interest (or Cognitec’s). The conflict was about Rich not having enough time to consider/review/accept changes to the language core and declining to relax acceptance of such changes without his sign off. It’s a problem and it doesn’t sit well with some people in the community, but it really is very different from your accusation.
- KirinDave 7y agoHaving been a part of that conversation and mad enough about it that I've effectively abandoned the use of Clojure: I am quite certain I'd describe it that way.
- keymone 7y agoThen you should easily be able to answer a simple question: what in Clojure is biased towards Datomic?
- KirinDave 7y agoMy experience with this conversation is that there is nothing I could say that would make you ever acknowledge my experience or feelings. Even the act of stating my opinion on a subjective matter is getting downvoted, because folks are so eager to NOT talk about this except under the lens of Hickey making shirt jokes. And it drives home the actual point I wanted to make about how some languages are in theory forkable, but in practice are very much run by a central figure who exercises powerful social control via the inertia of prior involvement and the social power of the community eager to defend them. So thank you for bringing us back on topic.
- keymone 7y agoa pity, i was hoping you had an actual example.