I 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

I 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.