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Nubank acquires Cognitect
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Re: Nubank acquires Cognitect
#12Wonder if this makes datomic more likely to become free/open source
Not sure what their license revenue is but hard to imagine it would be significant to a major fintech
Re: Nubank acquires Cognitect
#13What is meant by "joining"? Did Nubank aquire Cognitec?
Re: Nubank acquires Cognitect
#14The bull case here is if Nubank goes full Amazon and uses banking as a beachhead to create the next layer up from AWS, which Clojure/Datomic is amazingly perfect for – data all the things
Re: Nubank acquires Cognitect
#15what does this mean for the future of clojure? I am a bit worried that a startup has acquired two companies that have extremely deep experience in specialised languages Platformatec (Elixir) and now Clojure (Cognitect)
Would Nubank be still considered a startup?
Re: Nubank acquires Cognitect
#16Apparently Nubank has offices in Berlin, wonder if at some point there could be jobs there for working on open source Clojure things.
Re: Nubank acquires Cognitect
#17what does this mean for the future of clojure? I am a bit worried that a startup has acquired two companies that have extremely deep experience in specialised languages Platformatec (Elixir) and now Clojure (Cognitect)
Disclaimer: I am a Nubank employee, so there might be bias.
Regarding the future of Clojure, I believe that not much will change actually. Before Clojure was sponsored by Cognitect and had Rich's / Stu's and Alex's stewardship and that's gonna continue to be the case just swapping the sponsoring company behind it. IMHO it's only on Nubank's best interest to have a strong community around Clojure and Datomic as well.
About Platformatec I think that was a very different thing, it was more an acqui-hiring, and before Elxir's stewardship was under the company (but having very different development dynamics compared to Clojure) and after the agreement, it was transferred to the community. So the company was pretty much dissolved after the contract, and back then, that was clear and transparent, as it was announced to happen.
Re: Nubank acquires Cognitect
#18what does this mean for the future of clojure? I am a bit worried that a startup has acquired two companies that have extremely deep experience in specialised languages Platformatec (Elixir) and now Clojure (Cognitect)
I think the history of large companies hiring maintainers/authors of programming languages/libraries they use has so far gone good.
Take for example php, perl(booking.com, bbc, craigslist), js(fb etc).
The language needs to be supported financially though. Companies are not living beings, typically its some SVP making decisions. Sometimes they do support, but sometimes big shots do feel programmers are spending too much time working for greater good, while they should be working for company profits.
So it depends on the bosses you report to. There is no easy answer to this question, because many times it just comes to down to one person making decisions.
Re: Nubank acquires Cognitect
#19Earlier quoted context omitted.
The answer is in the blog post ("Nubank understands the unique value of Clojure and Datomic, and is committed to continuing both without disruption." and the bullet points that follow.)
That's what they _say_, it's not necessarily the answer to the question.
Well then what would you prefer the answer to be instead?
Re: Nubank acquires Cognitect
#20Did anyone else notice that the biggest non-academic supporters of functional programming seem to be financial institutions?
Is it due to the nature of the problem space? Is it because finance people tend to be more analytical? Something else?