High number of "Rich needs to get his act together" comments this year. There's always a few in the comments, but its a much higher percentage this time around. More than a few who said they left after Rich's "clarification" of how he views open source last year.
I think that clarification is reasonable. What rubbed people the wrong way is, imho, that people expect the "usual" approach to open source contributions. Instead it is very much optimized for Rich's time and vision. People who spent lots of time writing something have been met with either silence or a "thanks but no thanks".
I am not saying that Rich is doing anything wrong. What I am saying is that there has been a clash of expectations. I agree completely with Rich's clarification on OSS, but I think it failed to actually meet the ones that have been hurt (for the lack of a better word) by the process so far.
But that is just my view as an outsider. I have never actually used clojure more than just for fun.
Isn’t one of the touted strengths of Clojure that if you want to do something your way, you can make a library, and you don’t have to wait for or rely on the core language maintainers to accept it as canon?
So whether or not your proposal makes it into core, you can still put it out there and people can still make use of it if they find it useful. Specter looks like a good example of this.
Well, there was some kind of ruckus about a pretty big change to the compiler that was met with a thanks but no thanks. I completely understand becoming frustrated by that.
Hard to say without context. Was the change discussed with the core team? Did they say yes and then suddenly backed out? Otherwise I don't see much reason for being frustrated.
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[ 2.8 ms ] story [ 7.2 ms ] threadI am not saying that Rich is doing anything wrong. What I am saying is that there has been a clash of expectations. I agree completely with Rich's clarification on OSS, but I think it failed to actually meet the ones that have been hurt (for the lack of a better word) by the process so far.
But that is just my view as an outsider. I have never actually used clojure more than just for fun.
Isn’t one of the touted strengths of Clojure that if you want to do something your way, you can make a library, and you don’t have to wait for or rely on the core language maintainers to accept it as canon?
So whether or not your proposal makes it into core, you can still put it out there and people can still make use of it if they find it useful. Specter looks like a good example of this.
Clojure's fantastic contribution to mainstream programming is making these types widely available.