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> It's extraordinarily hard to build a community around a fork

it follows quite naturally, that reasoning to fork doesn't have enough community support, which only means one thing - you're wrong about clojure community's opinion on state of things around clojure.

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I'd believe that if it were ordinarily hard to fork. But it's disproportionately hard to fork because of network effects. It's true that if the community approves of the current direction, a fork won't succeed. But that doesn't mean that if a fork doesn't succeed, it implies the community approves.

Adding to that, there are a few forks of popular projects that were quite successful: io.js, libreoffice, mariadb.

Blink, Ubuntu, neovim, LibreSSL, Plex, XOrg, etc, etc.

If you're dedicated to it and correct about your choices, forking doesn't seem to hamper anything.

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