Some fascinating thoughts about sustainable open-source development. For me, Clojure was/is easily one of the most exciting developing events in programming lan

Some fascinating thoughts about sustainable open-source development. For me, Clojure was/is easily one of the most exciting developing events in programming languages in 2009. I started following the language around October 2008 and I've seen the mailing list go from 500 to close to 3K. Amid this growth both the mailing list and the IRC channel have remained helpful and friendly. Useful tools are popping up everywhere, and more and more people are using it as the secret sauce in their projects. And even if you don't like the language (being a Lisp), it's hard to deny that Clojure's ubiquitous use of persistent data structures and rich variety of concurrency primitives have made what previously seemed academic and esoteric concepts practical and everyday. If you're a Clojure fan or even an open source advocate, think about chipping in! I have a feeling 2010 will be yet another great year for Clojure ;)