Runa is hiring Clojure developers

Putting location on the hiring page would be helpful. Spoiler: http://runa.com/contact-us/

I'm going to submit my old CS .cfg files alongside a Clojure project from github.

What do people on HN think of the idea behind this startup? Do you think it has the potential to be huge and/or a good acquisition target? Would you apply/Are you applying for this job? Why or why not?

It certainly sounds like they have everything (business case /tech etc) well laid out. If I were a potential employee I'd have liked some information on what kind of equity a new employee could expect - RethinkDB set the standard here (http://www.rethinkdb.com/jobs/), but other than that very very minor quibble i think this is as good a recruiting pitch as I have seen.

(Due Disclosure: (a) Amit Rathore is a good friend of mine. (b) I have nothing to do with Runa or this ad. I am just curious as to how people here perceive the opportunity).

Sorry, but I dont get point of using an Obscure language like Clojure.

Also how are they different from directed edge a YC funded start up.

If they are doing predictive analysis/machine learning stuff, It makes sense to use Java, Python and C in that order since Java is what Hadoop is written in, while python and C allow very low dev time and latter provides extremely fast execution.

Using an unproven second class language like clojure shows that the team behind this project has a little experience in statistical modeling and related fields.

No one case which lanugage you use if its FP or ruby or even worse fortran. In statistical modeling it finally boils down to fast execution of some sort of huge matrix multiplication.

Really the only concern w.r.t language is readability/ compatibility with existing systems and low dev. time

Clojure is a Lisp for the JVM, so in a sense they are using Java. Besides, Clojure has been used in several high-throughput data analysis applications (FlightCaster for one), so it's not exactly an "unproven second-class language".