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@michael: Today is your lucky day :) The growth of Clojure has been exponential both among users and clients. A few years ago nobody could have imagined that a

by lbj 17y ago

@michael: Today is your lucky day :) The growth of Clojure has been exponential both among users and clients. A few years ago nobody could have imagined that a Lisp would have such rapid uptake, but it seems that the combination of a solid product, great libraries (JVM) and a productive community was all it took. IIRC the Google Group is now in excess of 3000 members and if you'd like to try it out I suggest you follow it or join us in #clojure on irc.freenode.net - If you're a professional developer it'll be worth your time, if not you'll at least have some fun!

nearestneighbor 17y ago
> The growth of Clojure has been exponential both among users and clients. A few years ago nobody could have imagined that a Lisp would have such rapid uptake, but ... Reality check. Both are in the noise: http://www.indeed.com/jobtrends?q=scala%2C+clojure%2C+python%2C+java&l= http://www.indeed.com/jobtrends?q=scala%2C+clojure%2C+python... Edit: oooh, downmods
- swannodette 17y ago
  I think a more relevant leading indicator of Clojure popularity for the Hacker News crowd is GitHub. Clojure is bumping heads with Lua and Erlang at the moment and that is pretty cool.
  - nearestneighbor 17y ago
    Hacker News and Reddit are gamed by advocates and bloggers. I recall "dons" (Haskell promoter) commenting on Reddit that it's awesome that 30% of Haskell's repositories can compile. The amount of FOSS code in some collection means nothing.
- banjiewen 17y ago
  Yes, they're noise compared to Java, of course; but he didn't imply that Clojure was going to overtake Java anytime soon - both metrics were introspective. Looking at this chart, the growth does seem to be both exponential and rapid: http://www.indeed.com/jobtrends?q=scala%2C+clojure&l= http://www.indeed.com/jobtrends?q=scala%2C+clojure&l=
  - nearestneighbor 17y ago
    Yes, really encouraging: http://www.indeed.com/jobtrends?q=scala%2C+clojure%2C+fortran&l= http://www.indeed.com/jobtrends?q=scala%2C+clojure%2C+fortra... Someday, they might even catch up to Fortran.

by lbj 17y ago

nearestneighbor 17y ago

> The growth of Clojure has been exponential both among users and clients. A few years ago nobody could have imagined that a Lisp would have such rapid uptake, but ... Reality check. Both are in the noise: http://www.indeed.com/jobtrends?q=scala%2C+clojure%2C+python%2C+java&l= http://www.indeed.com/jobtrends?q=scala%2C+clojure%2C+python... Edit: oooh, downmods

swannodette 17y ago
I think a more relevant leading indicator of Clojure popularity for the Hacker News crowd is GitHub. Clojure is bumping heads with Lua and Erlang at the moment and that is pretty cool.
- nearestneighbor 17y ago
  Hacker News and Reddit are gamed by advocates and bloggers. I recall "dons" (Haskell promoter) commenting on Reddit that it's awesome that 30% of Haskell's repositories can compile. The amount of FOSS code in some collection means nothing.
banjiewen 17y ago
Yes, they're noise compared to Java, of course; but he didn't imply that Clojure was going to overtake Java anytime soon - both metrics were introspective. Looking at this chart, the growth does seem to be both exponential and rapid: http://www.indeed.com/jobtrends?q=scala%2C+clojure&l= http://www.indeed.com/jobtrends?q=scala%2C+clojure&l=
- nearestneighbor 17y ago
  Yes, really encouraging: http://www.indeed.com/jobtrends?q=scala%2C+clojure%2C+fortran&l= http://www.indeed.com/jobtrends?q=scala%2C+clojure%2C+fortra... Someday, they might even catch up to Fortran.