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> At my company there have been several devs trying to introduce Clojure as well as parallel forays to introduce Kotlin. Overall, Kotlin has caught on and sprea
by zelphirkalt 5y ago
> At my company there have been several devs trying to introduce Clojure as well as parallel forays to introduce Kotlin. Overall, Kotlin has caught on and spread much more rapidly and with less effort.
The reason might be, that Clojure is following a completely different paradigm and people are not willing enough to learn it.
> This is not a statement of which languages are "better" given all things equal or what problems each are suitable for, but in my first hand experience it is easier for the average Java developer to pick up Kotlin.
Yep, I would expect that to be the case.
There is a lot to learn for the average Java only (so far) programmer to really get Clojure.