[evgen]

Probably worth noting that a lot of the companies with an interest in Clojure cited as Early Majority are simply non-Clojure companies that picked up an Early Adopter startup as an acquisition and need to continue development and does not necessarily represent greenfield Clojure development at that company (I know this for a fact regarding one of the companies cited on the list, suspect the same for a few of the others.)

While Clojure foundered a bit after its start in the race to become Java.next I think that what has ended up saving it, or at least given it new life that it really needed, is a particular combination that is not even mentioned anywhere in the article: Clojurescript and React wrappers like Om and Reagent. I know more people considering Clojure(script) as a path to a combined web app and mobile app (via React-native) than I do people looking at Clojure to power the back-end.

[nkassis]

I think (and have seen from personal experience) that some of those groups are more just individual teams that have adopted clojure on their own but are relatively niche and isolated from the larger companies. I don't think it's mostly made up of acquisitions. Teams in some large tech companies are free to choose the language that best fits their needs and so you can find pockets of clojure, go, etc ... around. Also the ones I've had personal experience with were all backend teams. I think clojurescript is still lagging backend clojure in tech companies but all I have is anecdotal evidence.

[pjmlp]

Here in Germany I only see Clojure ads in relation to big data startups[0].

Very seldom do classic companies ask for anything other than JavaScript on the browser or Java on the JVM.

[0] Same applies to other FP languages on the JVM.

[talloaktrees]

It's same same in the US outside of SF and NYC