[cellularmitosis]

“If someone tries to rewrite part of it in Clojure without extensive internal discussion first”

“single-handedly moving to a new technology and then forcing everyone else on the team to support it is impolite and annoying”

The dev you’re describing has indeed made some bad choices and I wouldn’t want to work with that guy either.

What I had in mind was more along the lines of “check out this thing I made, what do you think?”

Totally ok responses would include: “let’s just bypass the ORM here instead”, “let’s divert 5% of traffic to it and see what happens”, “this stays a prototype until you reach a bus factor of 2”, etc.