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by ImprobableTruth 2210 days ago
What is notable about Hickey besides being the creator of Clojure? Not to say that this alone doesn't make him notable, but I also don't really see the gain in an entry that is just a glorified redirect.
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He also created the Datomic database https://www.datomic.com/
All right... all right... but apart from better sanitation and medicine and education and irrigation and public health and roads and a freshwater system and baths and public order... what have the Romans done for us?
brought good syntax ?
And a pretty but impractical number system.
Didn't he also create ClojureScript? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tVooR-dF_Ag?t=180
And core.async, bringing go blocks, channels, and parking semantics to Clojure

https://github.com/clojure/core.async/

I think REBL is actually more of Stuart Holloway's baby, isn't it? They're close, so maybe this isn't so clear.
I also think that it's separately notable that Rich Hickey is a prolific speaker. Granted, he almost always talks about Clojure, but I think a lot of people outside of the language still watch those talks, and it would make a lot of sense to have something to look him up by.
Actually, very few of his talks are about Clojure.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guido_van_Rossum

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Larry_Wall

I’m sure there are others, they are the first that came to my mind.

An entry in wiki would not just be a recognition of his achievements but also a source for further reach out for his ideas.