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Did it though? Most of the time when I mention Clojure, people think I mean “closures”. Our whole stack is Clojure/Clojurescript. Clojure has helped reduce bug

by throw03172019 8y ago

Did it though? Most of the time when I mention Clojure, people think I mean “closures”. Our whole stack is Clojure/Clojurescript. Clojure has helped reduce bugs and improve stability across the board. I enjoy writing it everyday and wish more people would give it a shot.

Touche 8y ago
Compared to lisps before it, yep it did.
yogthos 8y ago
I don't think Clojure needs to boil the ocean to be successful. We already have a community of many thousands of developers with lots of very smart people in it. At this point there's enough mind share to keep it going indefinitely. At the same time Clojure benefits from being a hosted language. We don't have to build everything from scratch, instead we leverage two of the biggest ecosystems and reap all the benefits for free. It's still a very niche language to be sure, but from what I've seen there has been a lot of commercial adoption in the last couple of years. There are new a few consulting companies, such as JUXT and Metosin, that are focusing exclusively on Clojure consulting. A lot of the libraries in the ecosystem are now maintained by these companies as opposed to individuals. There are also efforts like Clojurists Together for funding Clojure projects sustainably. These efforts would not have been possible without growing commercial use with companies willing to donate money. So more companies using Clojure directly leads to a better ecosystem, and that in turn makes the language more attractive. The state of tooling and libraries is dramatically better today than it was even a couple of years go. I'm excited to see how the ecosystem grows this year. One of the projects I'm most excited about is https://cljdoc.org/ https://cljdoc.org/ which aims to provide a one stop shop for polished Clojure library documentation. I just saw a presentation about it at Clojure North, and I was very impressed with where it's at already.
- throw03172019 8y ago
  Thanks for your reply. I am very glad to hear this! Cljdoc looks great as well - much needed :) Btw, thank you for all your open source projects and comments on various GitHub repos.
  - yogthos 8y ago
    Thanks, glad to hear it's coming in handy. :)

Touche 8y ago

Compared to lisps before it, yep it did.

yogthos 8y ago

I don't think Clojure needs to boil the ocean to be successful. We already have a community of many thousands of developers with lots of very smart people in it. At this point there's enough mind share to keep it going indefinitely. At the same time Clojure benefits from being a hosted language. We don't have to build everything from scratch, instead we leverage two of the biggest ecosystems and reap all the benefits for free. It's still a very niche language to be sure, but from what I've seen there has been a lot of commercial adoption in the last couple of years. There are new a few consulting companies, such as JUXT and Metosin, that are focusing exclusively on Clojure consulting. A lot of the libraries in the ecosystem are now maintained by these companies as opposed to individuals. There are also efforts like Clojurists Together for funding Clojure projects sustainably. These efforts would not have been possible without growing commercial use with companies willing to donate money. So more companies using Clojure directly leads to a better ecosystem, and that in turn makes the language more attractive. The state of tooling and libraries is dramatically better today than it was even a couple of years go. I'm excited to see how the ecosystem grows this year. One of the projects I'm most excited about is https://cljdoc.org/ https://cljdoc.org/ which aims to provide a one stop shop for polished Clojure library documentation. I just saw a presentation about it at Clojure North, and I was very impressed with where it's at already.

throw03172019 8y ago
Thanks for your reply. I am very glad to hear this! Cljdoc looks great as well - much needed :) Btw, thank you for all your open source projects and comments on various GitHub repos.
- yogthos 8y ago
  Thanks, glad to hear it's coming in handy. :)