[Naomarik]

An unfortunate thing? That a project's own creator ensures the quality of its future?

What I've realized as I grown older is that the majority of people are not worth my time. Loads of people will actively waste your time and talk about things without knowledge. If you listen to Rich speak in any of his presentations or interviews, it's pretty obvious he knows the same thing and his inner circle are extremely intelligent. If you want to progress you must eliminate the garbage and keep the most quality people you can around you.

We now have like 5 main versions and variants of javascript that came out in the last few years that all look like complete rubbish (purely my opinion). There seems to be a new build tool coming up every 3 months. Everyone is making a library for things as basic as calling an API or padding a string. At one point not so long ago I was one of the programmers who needed said libraries to get work done.

The code for clojure is open source. If anyone absolutely must use clojure they can do a better job than Cognitect just fork it. Or keep learning the new version of javascript that inevitably comes out every year.