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That’s a nice thought, but I haven’t seen examples of that myself. And your claim of real-world use seems to be the opposite of what I found with a quick Google
by travv0 6y ago
That’s a nice thought, but I haven’t seen examples of that myself. And your claim of real-world use seems to be the opposite of what I found with a quick Google search:
https://redmonk.com/sogrady/2020/02/28/language-rankings-1-20/ https://redmonk.com/sogrady/2020/02/28/language-rankings-1-2...
https://www.tiobe.com/tiobe-index/ https://www.tiobe.com/tiobe-index/
https://insights.stackoverflow.com/survey/2020 https://insights.stackoverflow.com/survey/2020
Obviously this is far from scientific, but Clojure being a new, hyped language, it wouldn’t surprise me if that skewed people’s perception of how much it was used in production code.
- fnordsensei 6y agoI feel like at this point, it's neither new (coming up on 12 years old) nor hyped (it's been used in anger a lot by now). I'm not sure how you read real-world utility from looking at graphs of SO and GitHub. It's like claiming that garbage trucks have no real-world utility because they are vastly less popular than cars. Clojure is hovering around the same space as Rust, and beating WASM and Cuda. All of these languages occupy a useful niche, and a more-than-cursory search will reveal a lot of companies deploying them where they can play to their respective strengths.