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I think it's interesting how few comments clojure posts attract. Given pg's love of lisp and how amazing clojure is (at least in my opinion) in terms of langua

I think it's interesting how few comments clojure posts attract. Given pg's love of lisp and how amazing clojure is (at least in my opinion) in terms of language design and what features we'll need in the next 10 years, I would have thought the HN community would be jumping all over it. This isn't meant to be anything more then an interesting observation.

moomin 13y ago
Well, speaking for myself, I think the article is extremely interesting, but I don't think I have much to add to the conversation. Maybe Clojure just attracts lurkers. (It should be pointed out that I have plenty of strong opinions I'm more than happy to tell to anyone who will listen, but when it comes to Clojure, I want to hear from Nathan Marz, James Reeves, Stuart Sierra &c, and seriously doubt I have much to add.)
- HillOBeans 13y ago
  One lurker here - I, for one, am EXTREMELY interested in CoA, and Clojure in general. I have only worked on a couple of Android apps thus far, but it is already enough for me to want to look into Clojure for Android development. I don't know if my Android chops are good enough for me to get away from the Eclipse/Java environment just yet, though.
gtani 13y ago
If you look at hot topics like reducers, datomic and clojureScript, there's plenty of discussion. Haven't found a better way to find actively responded to threads than slogging thru hnsearch.com pages and Control-F for "comments |" https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5687190 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5687190 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5627799 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5627799
dizzystar 13y ago
This thread has a ton of comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5027560 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5027560 I think that it betrays the issue. If people are struggling to get started with the language, then that means that no one is bothering to use it beyond 4Clojure and basic koans. The fact that there is up-voting and about one Clojure article on the front page every week shows that there is a strong interest in the language, but until the maintainers figure out how to make the language accessible, there won't be much commentary because very few people are knowledgeable enough to say A or B about it.
ddellacosta 13y ago
I write Clojure code professionally and am deeply interested in all Clojure subjects that pass through HN (as well as Lisp/Scheme, Ruby, Scala, general CS, etc. -related posts on HN). But, I probably comment on only a small percentage of them, because, as another poster suggested, I don't have a lot to add other than "this is cool!" and I'd rather hear from folks who are more deeply involved in the projects under discussion--like Daniel Solano (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5804036 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5804036). I also suspect that, given how often Clojure posts pop up and hang out on the main page, despite their relative number of comments, the interest is strong here.

moomin 13y ago

Well, speaking for myself, I think the article is extremely interesting, but I don't think I have much to add to the conversation. Maybe Clojure just attracts lurkers. (It should be pointed out that I have plenty of strong opinions I'm more than happy to tell to anyone who will listen, but when it comes to Clojure, I want to hear from Nathan Marz, James Reeves, Stuart Sierra &c, and seriously doubt I have much to add.)

HillOBeans 13y ago
One lurker here - I, for one, am EXTREMELY interested in CoA, and Clojure in general. I have only worked on a couple of Android apps thus far, but it is already enough for me to want to look into Clojure for Android development. I don't know if my Android chops are good enough for me to get away from the Eclipse/Java environment just yet, though.

gtani 13y ago

If you look at hot topics like reducers, datomic and clojureScript, there's plenty of discussion. Haven't found a better way to find actively responded to threads than slogging thru hnsearch.com pages and Control-F for "comments |" https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5687190 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5687190 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5627799 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5627799

dizzystar 13y ago

This thread has a ton of comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5027560 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5027560 I think that it betrays the issue. If people are struggling to get started with the language, then that means that no one is bothering to use it beyond 4Clojure and basic koans. The fact that there is up-voting and about one Clojure article on the front page every week shows that there is a strong interest in the language, but until the maintainers figure out how to make the language accessible, there won't be much commentary because very few people are knowledgeable enough to say A or B about it.

ddellacosta 13y ago

I write Clojure code professionally and am deeply interested in all Clojure subjects that pass through HN (as well as Lisp/Scheme, Ruby, Scala, general CS, etc. -related posts on HN). But, I probably comment on only a small percentage of them, because, as another poster suggested, I don't have a lot to add other than "this is cool!" and I'd rather hear from folks who are more deeply involved in the projects under discussion--like Daniel Solano (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5804036 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5804036). I also suspect that, given how often Clojure posts pop up and hang out on the main page, despite their relative number of comments, the interest is strong here.