[user3939382]

Walmart Labs was a step in this direction.. but we need some big companies to standardize around Clojure to jumpstart the ecosystem of knowledge, libraries, talent, etc. I’ve spoken to engineering hiring managers at fairly big companies and they’re not willing to shift to a niche language based only on technical merits but without a strong ecosystem.

If we don’t get some big companies to take on this roll the language is going nowhere.

I’m saying this because I’m a huge fan of Clojure (as a syntax and language, not crazy about the runtime characteristics) and I hope I get the opportunity to use it.

[iLemming]

> If we don’t get some big companies to take on this roll

- Cisco - has built their entire integrated security platform on Clojure

- Walmart Labs and Sam's club - have some big projects in Clojure

- Apple - something related to the payment system

- Netflix and Amazon, afaik they use Clojure as well

even NASA uses Clojure.

I think the language "is going somewhere"...

[user3939382]

role* lol we made the same mistake. There is some adoption to be sure. But look at Google Trends for clojure.

[iLemming]

What does Google Trends have to do with a programming language? PHP is trending, and Clojure is not, perhaps because Clojure gives you a lot fewer reasons to google stuff up?

I myself rarely use Google to find a solution to a problem, and certainly almost never have to google shit like: "how to open a file in Clojure"...