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by vorg 2989 days ago
> Clojure, Groovy, JRuby, Jython are popular dynamic languages on the JVM, there are others

Perhaps he meant no dynamic languages have become popular enough on the JVM that it becomes common knowledge that the JVM can support popular types. None of those 4 languages you mentioned (Clojure, Apache Groovy, JRuby, Jython) are popular, whereas alternative JVM languages built from the ground up as static languages (i.e. Kotlin and Scala) are the ones people are adopting.
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omaranto 2989 days ago
My impression was that Clojure's popularity was comparable to Kotlin and Scala's. Is that not the case?
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vorg 2989 days ago
I like programming in Clojure -- it's the language that introduced me to lisp syntax and immutable values. But Scala has been adopted and Kotlin is being adopted to a far greater degree than Clojure seems to have been.
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