A niche coding language survived without any corporate funding

In 2007, a programmer named Rich Hickey spent two years in seclusion, funding his own research to build a better way for computers to handle massive amounts of data. The result was Clojure, a language that rejected the standard industry practice of chasing venture capital or corporate sponsorships. Instead of flashy advertisements, it relied on a unique mathematical philosophy that treats data as something that should never be changed, only added to—a concept known as immutability.