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>I have even more respect for him now knowing that he actually worked on Clojure for years without any income!! Hickey mentioned in one of his talks that he ac
by mapgrep 6y ago
>I have even more respect for him now knowing that he actually worked on Clojure for years without any income!!
Hickey mentioned in one of his talks that he actually burned through retirement savings (at least some?) while taking these years to do Clojure. I got the impression he had been thinking about it for a while prior and that it was in the neighborhood of two years. (The context was, he was thanking his wife for helping to make Clojure possible, in part by indulging in many converstions about very minute details of how Clojure would work.)
(I have no idea if this is covered in the paper as it's 46 pages, I've bookmarked it but not yet read it.)
- brabel 6y agoIn those 46 pages, he goes into details regarding how the idea came up to him, why he took a sabbatical of 2 years (which ended up lasting to this day, he says at the end :D ), what he did during those 2 years (not only Clojure) and how he basically has no retirement savings left because of that.
- projectileboy 6y agoThere was also a group of people who wanted to see Clojure succeed who donated money ($100 each, if I recall correctly). But I would guess that was a drop in the bucket compared to what he had to spend of his own money.