Great comment. Cognitect, and it's ownership/dominance of the language, is one of the more unfortunate things to happen to clojure in it's evolution, and should serve as a learning point for future language creators.

I wish Rich had been able to find/take a different path and developed more of a community with a "social contract" rather than keeping clojure a semi private project which users should be grateful for the ability to use. It would bring more participation from a wider community which would make the language and community far stronger in the long run.

Recent interactions I've had with the ReasonML project are night and day different than clojure.

At this point it feels like there needs to be a clojure like language (fixing some problems like startup time) that embraces more of a social contract with the community.