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> 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,

> 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 16y 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 16y 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 16y 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 16y 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.