It's been a trend for some years now (not just recently), due to reasons others here have said, such as multi-core, immutability, easier to reason about, etc. E

It's been a trend for some years now (not just recently), due to reasons others here have said, such as multi-core, immutability, easier to reason about, etc. E.g. a friend of mine was in a startup that was using Clojure in production over 5-6 years ago.