Comment by newcrobuzon

Thanks Chas for responding. Apologies for the parents metaphor if that made you feel uncomfortable - since at the time of my writing lots of comments on gist and HN were concurring with Rich and talking about "weeding out toxic personalities" I was just trying to come up with a metaphor that would offer a different perspective - that this is a type of disconnect that benefits no one and that there is no side that is clearly "good" or "bad" since all sides are needed for the whole ecosystem to work. Rich's statement was aimed at some core contributors (I am guessing now probably a bit more at Tim and less at your follow up tweet) and that worries me. Imho this situation is a lose-lose scenario: for Cognitect to lose contributors, for contributors to have spent hundreds/thousands of hours in vain and for anyone from clojure community who placed his bet on clojure and invested substantial time in learning/using/evangelizing it (affecting his/her market value in the process). Anyway thanks for all the work on clojure! I am still using some of your clojure libraries!