I think being conservative about evolving the language, and ecosystem growth are mostly different issues, the open source post was about the core language. Com

I think being conservative about evolving the language, and ecosystem growth are mostly different issues, the open source post was about the core language. Comparing to other languages I think the stability of the language has served the user community really well and been an enabler of the ecosystem. I guess the continuous language additions and resulting complexity & library/framework chuirn in some otherlanguages can also be seen as vitality and growth, but for many of us it's the wrong kind of growth. (And yes there are also disadvantages to the centralised development model of the core language) edit: there's a good summary of the discourse surrounding this post in the reddit comments at the time: https://www.reddit.com/r/Clojure/comments/a0pjq9/rich_hickey_open_source_is_not_about_you/ https://www.reddit.com/r/Clojure/comments/a0pjq9/rich_hickey...