[eggsyntax]

I can say that I (like many others) have built a thriving career on Clojure. I like to change jobs every couple of years, and I've never yet had any trouble finding a Clojure job I'm excited about (and I only consider well-paid remote jobs with friendly teams with companies doing something I feel good about). The community is mostly active on the Clojurians slack (currently ~24,000 users) and clojureverse.org.

So -- it's a niche for sure, but a very successful niche, and one that many people are very happy in. There aren't a ton of jobs out there relative to, say, Python, but there are also fewer people competing for those jobs, so it works out fine for individuals. It can be tricky to find your first Clojure job, but I think that's true in most languages.

I plan to stick with it for the foreseeable future, because there's no other language that I like nearly as much, or can be nearly as productive in.

[nextos]

What domains are you using Clojure in?

[rippeltippel]

Banking (e.g. Nubank) and other high stakes applications (e.g. JUXT).

In my small experience, I've been using Clojure for nearly 4 years to implement real-time ML pipelines.

[eggsyntax]

So far: complex data visualization, transportation logistics, voting-related nonprofit, medical research, and augmented analytics. I like to explore new domains :)

[jackdbd]

Could you expand a bit on data visualization and medical research? Did you develop libraries in these fields? Thanks!