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to talk about something new, you need to have something new to talk about i dont think that scala or clojure have lost momentum i think both clojure and scala,

to talk about something new, you need to have something new to talk about i dont think that scala or clojure have lost momentum i think both clojure and scala, stopped adding new features that are worthy of blogging about you cant just add feature, just to keep people talking about you clojure, is what it is, a nice language, a very smart leader (rick hickey), and a nice vibrant community (check #clojure on twitter) the most talked about language nowadays is actually c++, and i think this mainly because they suddenly decided to have a very ambitious roadmap, and keep adding features, so there is always something new to talk about does this make c++ better than clojure, well, i dont think they are even comparable, but it just make c++ more talked about than clojure

mattdeboard 8y ago
Very well said!
kamaal 8y ago
>>i dont think that scala or clojure have lost momentum i think both clojure and scala, stopped adding new features that are worthy of blogging about More like Clojure is in Cathedral mode of open source development. Most of the development is in private discussions, implementation and prototyping at Cognitect, and once they have something to share, they release it to the world. That's more a communication and marketing thing. For example, you can try Googling but you won't be able to see anything on the Clojure roadmap. No one knows what's the plan even year or two from now. But thanks to smart leadership, and brilliant development team they have, its mostly a non issue if you don't really care about the everyday minutiae. You can bet the top dollar that they are working on something good, and it will be eventually released to the world. To people coming from other open source tools, that can sound as strange.
- puredanger 8y ago
  https://clojureverse.org/t/roadmap-to-1-10/1581/8?u=alexmiller https://clojureverse.org/t/roadmap-to-1-10/1581/8?u=alexmill... is a pretty good overview of where Clojure has been going and will continue to go.
arximboldi 8y ago
Interesting to hear about C++ in this context, since of my goals is to make C++ more like Clojure: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sPhpelUfu8Q https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vohGJjGxtJQ There is a lot of I could say about the relationship between C++ and Clojure, but I'll leave it at that for now :-)

mattdeboard 8y ago

Very well said!

kamaal 8y ago

>>i dont think that scala or clojure have lost momentum i think both clojure and scala, stopped adding new features that are worthy of blogging about More like Clojure is in Cathedral mode of open source development. Most of the development is in private discussions, implementation and prototyping at Cognitect, and once they have something to share, they release it to the world. That's more a communication and marketing thing. For example, you can try Googling but you won't be able to see anything on the Clojure roadmap. No one knows what's the plan even year or two from now. But thanks to smart leadership, and brilliant development team they have, its mostly a non issue if you don't really care about the everyday minutiae. You can bet the top dollar that they are working on something good, and it will be eventually released to the world. To people coming from other open source tools, that can sound as strange.

puredanger 8y ago
https://clojureverse.org/t/roadmap-to-1-10/1581/8?u=alexmiller https://clojureverse.org/t/roadmap-to-1-10/1581/8?u=alexmill... is a pretty good overview of where Clojure has been going and will continue to go.

arximboldi 8y ago

Interesting to hear about C++ in this context, since of my goals is to make C++ more like Clojure: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sPhpelUfu8Q https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vohGJjGxtJQ There is a lot of I could say about the relationship between C++ and Clojure, but I'll leave it at that for now :-)