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He needs to find a benevolent benefactor-company that will employ him to freely work on Clojure full-time, the way Google lets Guido work on Python full-time, a
by zephjc 17y ago
He needs to find a benevolent benefactor-company that will employ him to freely work on Clojure full-time, the way Google lets Guido work on Python full-time, and Rob Pike,Ken Thompson et al. (presumably) get to work on Go full-time.
- petercooper 17y agoI dare say with the right words from the right people, getting him to Google (or similar) wouldn't be particularly difficult given Clojure's growing status.
- petercooper 17y agoTo add, I believe there's some precedent here. Some of the key JRuby founders were hired by Sun (though they've now left), IronRuby's main developer was hired by Microsoft, and MacRuby's main developer was hired by Apple. Of course, there's a heavy platform slant on all of those examples..