Comment by zenlot

"While Storm's Clojure implementation served it well for many years, it was often cited as a barrier for entry to new contributors. Storm's codebase is now more accessible to developers who don't want to learn Clojure in order to contribute." - interesting phrasing. Seems that the authors assuming that new contributors are more willing to learn Java instead of Clojure. And those who know Java find Clojure difficult to learn? Clojure, in fact is quite easy to grasp - especially for someone coming from Java, as you would still be working on JVM and always have Java Interop. I guess same thing goes to someone coming from Erlang to Elixir, where you are still working in the familiar ecosystem.