According to the the last StackOverflow Developer Survey [1], Clojure is the third most-loved language and the top-paid one. Having writing Clojure daily for n

According to the the last StackOverflow Developer Survey [1], Clojure is the third most-loved language and the top-paid one. Having writing Clojure daily for nearly 4 years, my experience fully confirms that survey. I also noticed the apparent silence around Clojure and its community, which looks like a paradox to me [2]. The Clojure community is actually active and very supportive (the Clojurians channel on Slack incredibly helpful) but it's also very much low profile. Rich Hickey created Clojure as an independent developer and without extra funding. He's a great speaker, but likely didn't benefit from all the marketing channels available to more popular languages designed in more corporate enviroments, such as Rust and Go. Being a LISP dialect, Clojure is also quite niche (not the first language you'd learn at school/uni) and definitely not academic, but extremely pragmatical. Learning Clojure was quite mind bending at first, and I often wondered by my more experienced colleagues kept saying how expressive it is. I now see their point, and get paid quite well for having spent time learning it. [1] https://survey.stackoverflow.co/2022/ https://survey.stackoverflow.co/2022/ [2] https://piero.github.io/stories/2022/06/23/the-clojure-paradox.html https://piero.github.io/stories/2022/06/23/the-clojure-parad...