| Your comment reminds me a bit of the relationship between Clojure and JavaScript. Back in 2014, Clojure-based web development had all kinds of groundbreaking ideas that massively improved quality of life: immutable data structures, hot code reloading (figwheel), decoupling of state and view (devcards), with all the benefits that come with functional programming. The JavaScript ecosystem has since closed the gap and has a lot of great libraries or tools that do these things, and it's just _so popular_ that it's hard to make the business case for Clojure(Script). Personally, I still think Clojure has a lot of really smart people contributing to it. It's exciting to see tools like libpython-clj enable Carin Meier's work around leveraging bleeding-edge Python Machine Learning libraries in Clojure, and something in my gut tells me that Rich and Co. are on the right track with spec while the JS community pursues TypeScript instead. It's true that every project needs a community if it's going to survive, and because the internet makes it so easy to share ideas, being the birthplace of good ideas is not enough to ensure your survival. I'll be interested to see what the landscape looks like in another half a decade! |