Clojurians Log v2

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mogge

good afternoon

no comments about the Cognitect acquisition yet in here? :-)

I think it's pretty interesting. Fun fact, Plataformatec, the company where Elixir was created, was also acquired by Nubank. Although Elixir was already considered an independent project by that time iirc.

why does Nubank buy an Elixir consulting company?

No idea, happened early this year

http://blog.plataformatec.com.br/2020/01/important-information-about-our-elixir-and-ruby-open-source-projects/

Don't really know what to think of it. They say it's all good. But it reminds me much of BloomReach taking over Hippo, and that didn't end that well. But enough things are different.

oh boy, the times when I was working at a Hippo subsidiary 🙂

but yeah things seem different

to me it's an interesting perspective to see a bank investing on niche technologies (I assume they're also heavily invested into elixir), acquihiring their makers

I could imagine that "risk mitigation" could be an important factor in such strategy

Maybe it's about time to give up the word "niche" for Clojure? 😉

famous in clojued circle, nah doesn’t work

seeing myself out

I read Nubank is valued at 10 billion USD. They definitely have the money to vertically integrate like this

woah totally missed the acquisition:laughing:

😮

"established" doesn't mean "wildly used", I still think Clojure is quite niche

I still get to hear some horror stories of my colleagues, breaking changes, stuck on Java 8, and open source software being kind of stolen 😭. I'm glad I left it a few years ago.