> Today i saw the announcement > http://groups.google.com/group/Qilang/browse_thread/thread/592773c562017d87 > that the creator and maintainer of another modern lisp dialect Qi > closed the shop and went to India. > The effect on Qi was so drastic that the Qi community are discussing > right now which languages to port it over, clojure being one of the > options.
I find this somewhat amusing: it targets Common Lisp, a language which isn't likely to change soon. Mark Tarver's departure shouldn't be a motivation for retargeting Qi! > Since i'm using clojure in my business i got worried at a sudden > thought what would happen to clojure if Ruch calls it a day. It's worth noting that Clojure and Qi are in very different situations. Qi is built on Common Lisp, and (my personal perspective) somewhat driven by the author's view of the limitations of CL. As such its primary audience is a sophisticated subset of Common Lisp users — already a small group. Clojure has a much larger pool from which to draw: dissatisfied Lispers, Java people, concurrency enthusiasts… I suspect that Clojure already has enough "community experts" that development would continue should Rich depart; hundreds of people have heard Rich speak, read the documentation and code for various features and paradigms, and so on. Some have even gone so far as to take up the CLR port, which is a good sign. I'm quite confident in it continuing to meet my needs for the foreseeable future. Sidenote 1: Given its focus on solving the practical problems that plague professional developers, rather than on software research, I'd be inclined to think that Clojure is already a much better choice for commercial software than Qi, with a larger pool of experts/ consultants, simpler deployment, yadda yadda. Sidenote 2: Qi isn't free for commercial use unless you buy the book. Odd. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Clojure" group. To post to this group, send email to clojure@googlegroups.com Note that posts from new members are moderated - please be patient with your first post. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to clojure+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/clojure?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
