Re:Rich Hickey's new project: datomic.com
by drcode on Monday March 05, 2012 @02:13PM
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I think Rich & the gang need to focus on a niche market for now as this technology matures. I expect they will work with a handful of enterprise clients for now but roll out "convenience features" in the future (i.e. easy to use and inexpensive hosting for smaller customers.)
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Certainly that's one approach. The one that seems more likely to generate widespread use is to put a tool in the hands of lots of developers, making it easy for more people to get involved and for unexpected uses to happen (e.g. MySQL v Oracle - though I'm not suggesting that the cost scales are equivalent here, it's merely the first example that comes to mind).
Rich & co. have historically been more interested in being correct than being popular, especially at the early stages. I would expect to see more components show up fairly quickly, but not before they're ready for use.