Clojure and Kotlin are, for me, the brightest stars in the JVM sky. However, I fear Clojure adoption has peaked at its current low rate probably because it was

Clojure and Kotlin are, for me, the brightest stars in the JVM sky. However, I fear Clojure adoption has peaked at its current low rate probably because it was never aimed at the corporate Java world as Kotlin is. Clojure appeals more to the software artisan which is a valuable niche in itself but its syntax, which is its strength, is so different from Java's that I think it is rarely seen as an alternative to Java.