Re:Datomic Is Now Free
by ilrwbwrkhv on Thursday April 27, 2023 @11:27AM
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The whole clojure ecosystem and the wonderful tools around it never really took off due to unclear documentation, poor onboarding and too few evangelists. Datomic and other products are really cool but are now being given away as scrapware due to this lack of effort to make the whole ecosystem more palatable, colorful and easy to get into for new audiences.
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Re:Datomic Is Now Free
by cellularmitosis on Thursday April 27, 2023 @05:55PM
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Even as a Clojure hobbyist I feel like all of these points are off? Between 4clojure, clojuredocs and the slack channel and the surprising number of books available, the onboarding and docs are great. And when I think of my favorite lang evangelists, hickey and nolen are absolutely #1 and #2, and have influenced me heavily, despite my day job not involving Clojure at all.