[keeganpoppen]

(for anyone who doesn't get it, Rich funded Clojure development via his retirement savings from 2005 until he ran out in 2009 https://dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.1145/3386321)

[microcolonel]

Rich Hickey is an artist and a hero, I owe him so much.

[gdsdfe]

Oh wow! I didn't know that

[swyx]

gotta ask - what did he do after 2009? is he alright now?

[dkersten]

He did a community drive in 2009/2010 or so and a lot of us pitched in a little. Then he joined forces with Relevance to create Cognitect and that has funded his Clojure development since. Hopefully he gets a nice payday from this acquisition too.

[puredanger]

He became the CTO of Cognitect. :) He's doing great.