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>Groovy, Scala and Clojure were the early contenders that people were exploring and Clojure seems to have won. I love Clojure and hope it gains more mindshare,
by joshlemer 8y ago
>Groovy, Scala and Clojure were the early contenders that people were exploring and Clojure seems to have won.
I love Clojure and hope it gains more mindshare, but I don't think this is accurate. Scala currently enjoys quite a lot more industry use than Clojure does, for instance there are currently roughly 15x as many postings mentioning Scala as there are Clojure (source: Linkedin.ca).
- brightball 8y agoYou're right. I updated my comment.
- cutler 8y agoSame in London. Search indeed.co.uk for "title:Clojure" and there are on average no more than 6 unique results. Outside London the rest of the UK shows next to nothing. About 6 years ago Clojure dojos and meetups were well-attended but even then the numbers were a fraction of the equivalent Scala events. Nowadays you're lucky to get a handful attendees at London Clojure events which is a real shame as it suggests Clojure is disappearing into a very small niche.
- ilikehurdles 8y agoYes, it’s niche, but remove “title:”.
- yogthos 8y agoAccording to all the recent JVM surveys Clojure has roughly the same usage as Scala: https://snyk.io/blog/jvm-ecosystem-report-2018 https://snyk.io/blog/jvm-ecosystem-report-2018 https://www.jetbrains.com/research/devecosystem-2018 https://www.jetbrains.com/research/devecosystem-2018 It's entirely possible that companies tend to hire for Scala via Linkedin a lot more than for Clojure.