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Clojurists Together – Q2 2026 Open Source Funding Announcement

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Re: Clojurists Together – Q2 2026 Open Source Funding Announcement

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Post by seancorfield »

dustingetz wrote: post #15
jwr wrote: post #13

If you use Clojure for your business, please consider funding this effort and also directly developers who work on software that you use. It makes for a sustainable ecosystem. The Clojure community is very mature and incredibly nice, so things are not bad as they are, but they could definitely be better. I try to set aside a portion of my business revenue (I call it a "sustainability fee" in my P&L) and spread it amo…

what needs funding is clojure core, Clojurists Together is a nice effort to try to fill a gap but what my business needs, and other business owners tell me they need, is for the core language (clojure and clojurescript) to not feel like it is falling apart. I want to invest my money in targeted, specific high value problems and get leverage on my money by sharing the cost with other business owners who need the same…

What do you mean by "falling apart"?

Clojure is the most stable and robust language I've ever used, and I've been using it in production for 15 years now.

Re: Clojurists Together – Q2 2026 Open Source Funding Announcement

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Post by uxcolumbo »

lgrapenthin wrote: post #20
uxcolumbo wrote: post #17

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Cognitect is a holding of NuBank (since 2020 I believe). Doesn't that mean the core developers are now funded by NuBank? Isn't it in their interest that 'the core language (Clojure and Clojurescript) to not feel like it is falling apart'? And what do you mean with falling apart? I'm new to Clojure, so the above is a genuine question.

There is no falling apart. This guy just tries to spread this narrative every two months or so, idky. Check out latest dev call https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ngyvDkZA3o0

Not sure this type of response helps and referring to someone who is active in the Clojure community and tries to build some cutting edge stuff as 'this guy'. (Did some digging and hyperfiddle looks pretty cool).

I think it would help to understand why he is talking about this 'every two months' and then try to address his concerns.

Would be a shame to lose people who are active in the community but not heard.

Re: Clojurists Together – Q2 2026 Open Source Funding Announcement

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Post by lgrapenthin »

uxcolumbo wrote: post #22
lgrapenthin wrote: post #20

Earlier quoted context omitted.

There is no falling apart. This guy just tries to spread this narrative every two months or so, idky. Check out latest dev call https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ngyvDkZA3o0

Not sure this type of response helps and referring to someone who is active in the Clojure community and tries to build some cutting edge stuff as 'this guy'. (Did some digging and hyperfiddle looks pretty cool). I think it would help to understand why he is talking about this 'every two months' and then try to address his concerns. Would be a shame to lose people who are active in the community but not heard.

Of course calling out baseless FUD is helpful. Otherwise it just discourages people from engaging with Clojure, which is not helpful.

Re: Clojurists Together – Q2 2026 Open Source Funding Announcement

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Post by slifin »

dustingetz wrote: post #15
jwr wrote: post #13

If you use Clojure for your business, please consider funding this effort and also directly developers who work on software that you use. It makes for a sustainable ecosystem. The Clojure community is very mature and incredibly nice, so things are not bad as they are, but they could definitely be better. I try to set aside a portion of my business revenue (I call it a "sustainability fee" in my P&L) and spread it amo…

what needs funding is clojure core, Clojurists Together is a nice effort to try to fill a gap but what my business needs, and other business owners tell me they need, is for the core language (clojure and clojurescript) to not feel like it is falling apart. I want to invest my money in targeted, specific high value problems and get leverage on my money by sharing the cost with other business owners who need the same…

Clojure core has always been highly protected, stable and curated

The downside of that is it's slow and difficult to get changes in

Instead of talking about throwing money to get the contributors to fix what you want it would be better to publicly talk about the problems

Are they tracked or known, what do they stop you from doing, how long have they been in the queue have you had any feedback etc?

Re: Clojurists Together – Q2 2026 Open Source Funding Announcement

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Post by uxcolumbo »

lgrapenthin wrote: post #23
uxcolumbo wrote: post #22

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Not sure this type of response helps and referring to someone who is active in the Clojure community and tries to build some cutting edge stuff as 'this guy'. (Did some digging and hyperfiddle looks pretty cool). I think it would help to understand why he is talking about this 'every two months' and then try to address his concerns. Would be a shame to lose people who are active in the community but not heard.

Of course calling out baseless FUD is helpful. Otherwise it just discourages people from engaging with Clojure, which is not helpful.

Of course. But for people not in the know and looking outside in, they don't know what's going, i.e. why is someone who's been using Clojure for years and building a business with it making these points every few months as you say?

To counteract FUD it would be useful to give a few more details.

Re: Clojurists Together – Q2 2026 Open Source Funding Announcement

#27

Post by lgrapenthin »

uxcolumbo wrote: post #26
lgrapenthin wrote: post #23

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Of course calling out baseless FUD is helpful. Otherwise it just discourages people from engaging with Clojure, which is not helpful.

Of course. But for people not in the know and looking outside in, they don't know what's going, i.e. why is someone who's been using Clojure for years and building a business with it making these points every few months as you say? To counteract FUD it would be useful to give a few more details.

Might be some personal beef, but I don't know really and don't care enough. He makes these authorative claims mixed with personal sentiment and then doesn't back them up.

Here for instance the core team supposedly has "lost control of the compiler" https://x.com/dustingetz/status/1947643515480965346

Work on the compiler had been pushed a month earlier https://github.com/clojure/clojure/commit/6a3e0f02c6a96fcef2...

Re: Clojurists Together – Q2 2026 Open Source Funding Announcement

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Post by uxcolumbo »

lgrapenthin wrote: post #27
uxcolumbo wrote: post #26

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Of course. But for people not in the know and looking outside in, they don't know what's going, i.e. why is someone who's been using Clojure for years and building a business with it making these points every few months as you say? To counteract FUD it would be useful to give a few more details.

Might be some personal beef, but I don't know really and don't care enough. He makes these authorative claims mixed with personal sentiment and then doesn't back them up. Here for instance the core team supposedly has "lost control of the compiler" https://x.com/dustingetz/status/1947643515480965346 Work on the compiler had been pushed a month earlier https://github.com/clojure/clojure/commit/6a3e0f02c6a96fcef2...

Thanks for that. These details are important for newcomers, because it seems the original commenter isn't happy with the core team's process and 'feels like it's falling apart' is hyperbole and subjective.

For future readers: Clojure is known to be extremely stable and backwards compatible. It doesn't suffer from the same churn, fatigue and breaking changes that the JavaScript ecosystems experiences for example. To get to that backwards compatibility it requires a different process.

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