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Does this mean Closure will continue to become more and more server/web focused? I could have the wrong impression, but from all the dead libraries I've come a

by geokon 6y ago

Does this mean Closure will continue to become more and more server/web focused? I could have the wrong impression, but from all the dead libraries I've come across it feels like it used to be all over the place with people doing math, visualizations/art, music, people trying to run on Android (seemingly the only JVM language that has no Android ecosystem/workflow.. crazy) etc.. Now a lot of that has atrophied and looks like it's mostly all about web. Though there are still interesting nonweb things going on - it just feels like a shrinking fraction Either way, a big congrats to the people involved. Happy for you guys. That you for all your hard work, the beautiful language that has made me enjoy programming more than ever, and all for free :)

Heliosmaster 6y ago
FWIW Clojurescript can also be used in ESP32: https://blog.tindie.com/2020/07/clojurescript-on-esp32-why-not/ https://blog.tindie.com/2020/07/clojurescript-on-esp32-why-n... Mike Fikes and the team at Vouch.io are doing some interesting work there, using cljs for IOT.
johnfn 6y ago
I think what you might be seeing is actually just a decline in interest of the language in general: https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?date=all&geo=US&q=%2Fm%2F03yb8hb https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?date=all&geo=US&q=%...
beders 6y ago
It's not untypical for clojure libs to appear "dead". They will work just fine. Some libs are just "done"!
puredanger 6y ago
I disagree that people are not doing those things now or that this has changed at all. We have a decade of yearly Clojure surveys that show people continue to do all those things (and lots more). Most (70-80%) of Clojure developers work on web apps because most programmers work on web apps. People that like Clojure use it for everything you can think of and I expect them to keep doing so.
tincholio 6y ago
Web is of course kinda dominant everywhere, but there's great stuff happening in other domains. For example, have a look at what the Scicloj folks are doing for data science https://github.com/scicloj/ https://github.com/scicloj/ as well as the Tech Ascent libraries https://github.com/techascent/ https://github.com/techascent/

by geokon 6y ago

Heliosmaster 6y ago

FWIW Clojurescript can also be used in ESP32: https://blog.tindie.com/2020/07/clojurescript-on-esp32-why-not/ https://blog.tindie.com/2020/07/clojurescript-on-esp32-why-n... Mike Fikes and the team at Vouch.io are doing some interesting work there, using cljs for IOT.

johnfn 6y ago

I think what you might be seeing is actually just a decline in interest of the language in general: https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?date=all&geo=US&q=%2Fm%2F03yb8hb https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?date=all&geo=US&q=%...

beders 6y ago

It's not untypical for clojure libs to appear "dead". They will work just fine. Some libs are just "done"!

puredanger 6y ago

I disagree that people are not doing those things now or that this has changed at all. We have a decade of yearly Clojure surveys that show people continue to do all those things (and lots more). Most (70-80%) of Clojure developers work on web apps because most programmers work on web apps. People that like Clojure use it for everything you can think of and I expect them to keep doing so.

tincholio 6y ago

Web is of course kinda dominant everywhere, but there's great stuff happening in other domains. For example, have a look at what the Scicloj folks are doing for data science https://github.com/scicloj/ https://github.com/scicloj/ as well as the Tech Ascent libraries https://github.com/techascent/ https://github.com/techascent/