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I'm not a Clojure guy, but I'd love to see this type of funding for language/tool developers take off. We as an industry/community get so much for free (and ex
by stephen 13y ago
I'm not a Clojure guy, but I'd love to see this type of funding for language/tool developers take off.
We as an industry/community get so much for free (and expect it these days), that it's ridiculous the only way for devs to get paid to do this is sell support contracts to enterprises (Redhat, Spring, TypeSafe). Or work for companies so embarrassingly profitable (Google) that they can subsidize it.
Neither of which is funds being provided to the developers themselves.
Not that I want to jump over to an MS-style "pay for everything" approach--open source is great, but seems like there could be a balance/middle ground that we're missing.
- alexatkeplar 13y agoCompletely agree - very excited to have just sponsored Ambrose's project as Snowplow Analytics. As an industry we need to get much better at acknowledging and supporting the role the technology components "under us" in the stack play in our own products' success; Zed Shaw made this exact point talking about Mongrel in his Why I (A/L)GPL post.[1] So direct sponsorship to developers doing innovative things is great - and Typed Clojure is really innovative, one of the things I'm most excited about at the moment (along with Mesos, Rust and Summingbird). We don't use a lot of Clojure at Snowplow yet - but we use some[2], and we will likely use a lot more with Typed Clojure, because optional typing is such a great fit for ETL work. Keep up the great work Ambrose! [1] http://zedshaw.com/essays/why_i_gpl.html http://zedshaw.com/essays/why_i_gpl.html [2] https://github.com/snowplow/snowplow/tree/master/2-collectors/clojure-collector https://github.com/snowplow/snowplow/tree/master/2-collector...