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Clojure ahead of Scala? In which universe? Go to any jobs site such as Indeed.com and you'll find Scala jobs outnumber Clojure by about 10 to 1.
by cutler 4y ago
Clojure ahead of Scala? In which universe? Go to any jobs site such as Indeed.com and you'll find Scala jobs outnumber Clojure by about 10 to 1.
- moomin 4y agoI spoke at a Clojure conf a bunch of years ago, I remember thinking “Wow this is a big room.” But afterwards I got talking to an event organiser about what they had to do for the Scala version of the same event…
- cutler 4y agoI remember going to monthly "Hack The Tower" Clojure and Scala events at one of the big London financial institutions back in 2014. Both were hot languages but you could see by the presence of recruiters that employers were only interested in Scala.
- fulafel 4y agoA couple of unscientific measures of Clojure vs Scala: - First couple of screenfuls worth of HN Algolia search stories by date covers 7 months of scala, vs 3 months of Cloure stories - score 1 for cloure - on Lobsters, 2 pages of Clojure is 9 months, for Scala 3 years - score 1 for clojure - in StackOverflow dev survey, Scala respondent count is ~50% higher than Clojure (~1800 vs ~1200) - though Clojure is "loved" significantly more. Score 1 for Scala. I'll admit it seems more of a draw than I thought and you could reasonably weight the SO case a bit more than the first 2...