Is your question more generally, are employees more engaged / productive / loyal when given the opportunity to use cutting edge tools? (and do VCs recognize such tools as a competitive advantage vs an unnecessary risk that makes hiring difficult?)
Or, is your question whether Clojure/Script is such a tool? Personally, the only reason I considered my current employer is because the team is full stack Clojure. For me this is a huge source of job stickiness. I feel like I'm becoming a better programmer faster -- I'm learning more -- using Clojure than I would using traditional tools. For that reason my first question of any other opportunity is whether they use a tool with similar promise. PG's "Beating the Averages" feels relevant here: http://www.paulgraham.com/avg.html That's from the entrepreneur's perspective. Not sure whether the broader VC community agrees. - Brian On 4/15/15 9:48 AM, Marc Fawzi wrote: > fixed title.... would like to discuss in person with other interested > folks if not suitable for the mailing list... :) > > On Tue, Apr 14, 2015 at 10:06 PM, Marc Fawzi <[email protected] > <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: > > Hey everyone, > > Would you say that Clojure/Script, owing to its relative obscurity > and great design, can be a talent retention tool for startups? > > I feel more motivated to go to work every day and more stickiness > with my employer as a direct consequence of working with > ClojureScript and Reagent. > > Do you think this is a general phenomenon? > > If so, what can we do to educate the VC community as to the > advantages of funding startups that use Clojure/Script? Could this > ever fly? > > Or is it a situation where most of the world outside this mailing > list (and a few other ones) views ClojureScript as a science > experiment? > > Just very curious. If the consensus on this is positive im sure a > few of us determined souls would be inclined to *help* educate the > VCs and startups thru a potentially crowd funded direct education > campaign... Or community good will. > > > Sent from my iPhone > > > -- > Note that posts from new members are moderated - please be patient > with your first post. > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > Groups "ClojureScript" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send > an email to [email protected] > <mailto:[email protected]>. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected] > <mailto:[email protected]>. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/clojurescript. -- Note that posts from new members are moderated - please be patient with your first post. --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "ClojureScript" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/clojurescript.
