Rich Hickey

"Simple Made Easy"; Clojure design rationale

Rich Hickey is the creator of Clojure, a functional Lisp dialect hosted on the JVM, and the architect of the Datomic database. His talk 'Simple Made Easy' distilled a philosophy distinguishing simplicity from ease, shaping how practitioners think about software complexity. He served as CTO of Cognitect, the company built around Clojure and Datomic.