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> Clojure missed the last step

Oddly, it seems to me that Clojure (the established people in its community) don't really care if anyone is attracted to it.

It seems like the people who come to Clojure do so because they caught a glimpse of it somewhere, did some digging and searching, and decided to give it a try. Not exactly the same as Sun spending $500 million to market Java.

That's not to suggest the Clojure community is unwelcoming or silent, but they generally fly under the radar.

Several years ago I went to a few of the Amsterdam Clojure meetup group meetings, and at that time there were 10 to 20 people there.

Meanwhile, the Elixir meetup would have 20-40! And Elixir was still comparatively young. Of course the Ruby meetup group was even larger, but that's no surprise given the prevalence of Rails in business.