| I feel your frustration. Clojure, in my opinion, has always been niche, but is still effective and may actually be immortal? New things are always being tried by small groups of people leaving corpses strewn about. I don't think it is the building, so much as the burying that needs more work, so that we know what libraries do or don't need tombstones. To the best of my knowledge, Onyx and Cortex were both backed by companies which either needed to move onto more successful products, or in the case of Cortex, they closed up shop. It might be better to look at libraries that have stronger community support. Onyx is an amazing library but it competes with other libraries like KafkaStreams which has community buy in, and commercial support if needed. Cortex might be replaced with mxnet which got clojure bindings sometime in the last couple of years (see gigasquid). (Although libpython might make this redundant -- assuming language purity isn't a blocker to being pragmatic). Others will have better examples, but here are some simple ones that are well maintained, but lets not forget that the java ecosystem is also available: clojure
clojurescript
core.async
mxnet
integrant Its good to remember that what might be considered "rot" in some ecosystems, is just a sign of maturity and of a library being finished. Many older libraries with no commits in years function as is, as documented. |
I’ve noticed that pattern in the lisps and Erlang. Things are dead, they just don’t really need any changes.