Completely agree - very excited to have just sponsored Ambrose's project as Snowplow Analytics. As an industry we need to get much better at acknowledging and supporting the role the technology components "under us" in the stack play in our own products' success; Zed Shaw made this exact point talking about Mongrel in his Why I (A/L)GPL post.[1]
So direct sponsorship to developers doing innovative things is great - and Typed Clojure is really innovative, one of the things I'm most excited about at the moment (along with Mesos, Rust and Summingbird). We don't use a lot of Clojure at Snowplow yet - but we use some[2], and we will likely use a lot more with Typed Clojure, because optional typing is such a great fit for ETL work.
So direct sponsorship to developers doing innovative things is great - and Typed Clojure is really innovative, one of the things I'm most excited about at the moment (along with Mesos, Rust and Summingbird). We don't use a lot of Clojure at Snowplow yet - but we use some[2], and we will likely use a lot more with Typed Clojure, because optional typing is such a great fit for ETL work.
Keep up the great work Ambrose!
[1] http://zedshaw.com/essays/why_i_gpl.html [2] https://github.com/snowplow/snowplow/tree/master/2-collector...