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by thunky9 hours ago |
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upvoteby Antibabelic9 hours ago|
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"The TIOBE index measures how many Internet pages exist for a particular programming language."

For some reason I doubt this is in any way representative of the real world. Scratch, which is a teaching language for children, bigger than PHP? Which is smaller than Rust? Yeah, these are results you get when you look at the Internet, alright.

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upvoteby thunky8 hours ago|
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Sure that index isn't great (I think it's basically a regurgitation of Google Trends), but I don't think you're suggesting Clojure is actually a popular language are you? Which is the only point I'm trying to make (that it isn't popular).
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upvoteby Antibabelic8 hours ago|
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Clojure is reasonably popular as far as programming languages go. It's not difficult to get a job as a Clojure developer, particularly in certain sectors (fintech and healthcare are the heaviest Clojure users). Of course C++, Java, C# and PHP dwarf both Clojure and Rust by several orders of magnitude.
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upvoteby embedding-shape9 hours ago|
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If anything, I think that makes Clojure better. Almost no one in the community is doing stuff to serve "lowest common denominator", compared to how most of JS/TS development is being done, which is a breeze of fresh air for more senior programmers.

Besides, the community and ecosystem is large enough that there are multiple online spaces for you to get help, and personally I've been a "professional" (employed + freelancing) Clojure/Script developer for close to 7 years now, never had any issues finding new gigs or positions, also never had issues hiring for Clojure projects either.

Sometimes "big enough" is just that, big enough :)

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upvoteby joshlemer6 hours ago|
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Spinning dwindling adoption as a good thing because it "unburdens community from serving lowest common denominator use-cases" is exactly the kind of of downplaying/deflection of every issue that I'm talking about, which constantly happens in the Clojure community. It's such an unhealthy attitude to have as a community and it holds it back from actually clearly seeing what the issues are and coming up with solutions to them.

Every problem people face is "not a problem" or "actually a good thing" or, maybe if all else fails we can make users feel bad about themselves. Clojure is intended for "well experienced, very smart developers". Don't you know, our community skews towards very senior developers! So if you don't like something, maybe the problem is just that you're not well experienced enough? Or, maybe what you work on is just too low-brow for our very smart community!

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upvoteby embedding-shape5 hours ago|
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> It's such an unhealthy attitude to have as a community

How about just "different"? Turtle want to teach everyone to program, that's fine, just another way of building and maintaining a language. Clojure is clearly not trying to cater to the "beginner programmer" crowd, and while you might see it as "unhealthy attitude", I'd personally much prefer to realize having many different languages for different people is way better than every language trying to do the same thing for the same people. Diversity in languages is a benefit in my eyes, rather than a bad thing.

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upvoteby thunky8 hours ago|
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I'm glad it works for you and many others and gives you a good living. Nothing wrong with that. I wasn't trying to attack it or anyone that uses it, just stating why I never warmed up to it and projecting why I think it hasn't become popular.
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