Typesafe raises $14M to commercialize Scala
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Typesafe raises $14M to commercialize Scala
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Re: Typesafe raises $14M to commercialize Scala
#2Great news! There's more details on the company's blog, too: http://blog.typesafe.com/typesafe-announces-14m-series-b-fin...
Re: Typesafe raises $14M to commercialize Scala
#3In the meantime, in the alternative universe I wish I were living in, the same thing happens to the company behind the widely used Clojure programming language...
Re: Typesafe raises $14M to commercialize Scala
#4In the meantime, in the alternative universe I wish I were living in, the same thing happens to the company behind the widely used Clojure programming language...
I'd imagine that's the idea behind Datomic, though less direct: create product, get funded/income, make both Datomic and Clojure better in the process.
Re: Typesafe raises $14M to commercialize Scala
#5The coverage at GigaOm provides a bit more substance.
http://gigaom.com/cloud/typesafe-gets-14m-to-push-scala-as-a...
And there's the Typsafe blog from the source:
Re: Typesafe raises $14M to commercialize Scala
#6This is great news for the Typesafe Stack. While Scala is bigger then just Typesafe I am glad to see some real support behind the awesome set of libraries they put out.
Re: Typesafe raises $14M to commercialize Scala
#7In the meantime, in the alternative universe I wish I were living in, the same thing happens to the company behind the widely used Clojure programming language...
I think Rich knows that you can't sell a technology or language, you have to sell a product. That's why he did Datomic.
That said, I write Scala at my current job and am super excited that Typesafe got this funding. Please, Typesafe, follow Rich's lead. Make a real product backed by a technology, not a bunch of libraries! I want you to be around for years to come.
p.s. we're hiring. You don't even have to be super smart, just be passionate. owreese AT gmail DOT com
Re: Typesafe raises $14M to commercialize Scala
#8In the meantime, in the alternative universe I wish I were living in, the same thing happens to the company behind the widely used Clojure programming language...
The company/startup behind Light Table is trying pretty hard to make Clojure more popular by providing sorely needed tools for it.
Re: Typesafe raises $14M to commercialize Scala
#9In the meantime, in the alternative universe I wish I were living in, the same thing happens to the company behind the widely used Clojure programming language...
The commercial entity behind Clojure, Clojure/core is not modeled in the same way as TypeSafe. Instead, its main focus (at the moment at least) is providing training[1]. The truly commercial entity in the Rich Hickey universe is Datomic and as a result also works under a different model than Typesafe.[2]
Re: Typesafe raises $14M to commercialize Scala
#10Any one know what the Series B valued Typesafe at?