Thanks for sharing your ideas with all of us Rich. I've only dabbled in Clojure but like many others I've found the language and your talks and ideas inspirational and exciting. A rare example of successfully simplifying things, referring to your deservedly famous talk.
I've found that to be a really useful extension as well, stops you getting distracted by all the news feed posts when you just logged in to check an event or something.
The architecture they have ended up with is similar to that described in Out of the Tar Pit, which describes how to remove as much complexity from software as possible.
By moving all state into SQLite they have implemented the "store state in relations" layer, and then written (as far as possible) functional code on top.
I've been thinking about how to make my software more like this so it's interesting to see Facebook are thinking along the same lines.
There's a lot of really good ideas in Out of the Tar Pit and I'd really recommend reading it.
I really enjoyed reading this, despite its length! It makes some great points about scheduling that resonated with me, backed up by interesting thought experiments.
Sorry for the late reply. I have found it very good. The first build or two rebooted a couple of times a day but the recent builds are rock solid. I've stopped updating it now regularly but when I do the builds just work. I normally stop by the fairphone forums before I stick a new build on just to see if there's any chatter.
I much prefer lineage to any other android experience I've ever had fwiw. Everything just works (except I haven't figured out how to nor really care to spend much time investigating snapchat with lineage).
