>> Someone asked if their were any Clojure failure stories. Yes, unfortunately there are a few that I'm aware of. I don't want to go into detail, but I've defi

>> Someone asked if their were any Clojure failure stories. Yes, unfortunately there are a few that I'm aware of. I don't want to go into detail, but I've definitely gotten more SOS calls than I care to count. I'm okay cleaning up messes, but Clojure allows developers to really hang themselves in ways that they can't in other languages simply because you can't do those things in other languages. Clojure isn't an easy language to get, or rather, it is easy to reach for very complex, totally passing up the very simple tools the language gives you. The language is very simple, and I think that throws a lot of people, especially if they come from languages with more boilerplate baked in. Personally, I love Clojure, but I never considered it practical for any team that is larger than a handful of developers, and it is certainly not safe for every developer to use. I'm using it on my current project because I'm working alone, and in keeping it small and focused, I have no plan to change that. Is Clojure dying? I don't really know. I've never met enough Clojure developers that stuck with it long enough to move the meter to "massive uptick," so there isn't much of a down-slope relative to "alive." I've always seen it as a niche language with a wonderful community. I sometimes joke that I know all 50 people in the US who actually know how to use the language.