Tipping point in terms of visibility yes. Rich Hickey has spent 3 years of his life creating Clojure. He's watched the popularity of the language boom and comme

Tipping point in terms of visibility yes. Rich Hickey has spent 3 years of his life creating Clojure. He's watched the popularity of the language boom and commercial ventures using Clojure take off. Rich knows he could probably do just fine consulting on Clojure. However that means he doesn't get to ... work on Clojure. He's basically saying, "Hey guys, I want to keep hacking on this thing like a madman as I have for 3 years now. I don't want to do side projects. Let's make it happen". It reminds me a bit about Benedict de Spinoza and Robert Musil. In both cases friends were fascinated by their writing, and they pooled some money together so the writer could - focus on writing.