>>jashke+(OP)
I kind of wish people complaining about Clojure's development process (and of other open source projects) would just create a fork and implement their own ideas.
This way, everyone could benefit from the experimentation and likely some of their ideas would get rolled into the root project once they have proven themselves.
>>jeffda+Y3
It has actually worked out pretty well in the case of Typelevel Scala. Users are free to compile using mainline Scala while using libraries that are built in Typelevel Scala. In most cases, this isn't even exposed to the user.