I'm eager to see Clojure turn 1.0 because it is a fantastic language that deserves to be even more popular than it already is. I believe it is time to put the message out there that clj has made the journey from "something to toy with" to "a serious language" or even "the next big thing". Clojure has already reached 1.0 maturity in my eyes because:
1) There are large projects already using it - Luc/Stuart have already done major deployments - I'm quite amazed at the depth of the projects you get a peek of from the group - Heck Itay wrote a full clj IDE in 2 months which was really slick 2) My own experience - I used to have to svn update regularly and check the group to code in clj, for the last 2 months I've noticed no need for that anymore - Bug reports seem to have dried up, and I don't encounter any ever (I encounter my own bugs regularly still!) - No radical diversions to core being discussed 3) Core language considerations - All 1.0 discussion has been infrastructure related; indicates people are comfortable with how the language itself looks - Type systems is the only lively debate I've noticed on the group in this area, and I don't see it holding 1.0 back - http://code.google.com/p/clojure/issues/list is quite boring these days :P 4) JVM safety net - I don't think anyone can claim "I can't do X in Clojure" Many important items and insightful observations have been discussed in this thread which I totally agree need to be pursued with due vigor. To my mind however Clojure is ready and the most important priority is to hand out the party poppers and novelty hats. Well done Rich and core contributors, I hope you choose to stamp 1.0 sooner than later [obviously when you feel comfortable with that] :) Regards, Tim. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
