[zmibes]

Plenty of anicdata here - so here my 2p: I started with Clojure about 5 years ago. Since then the community, tooling and job options have bloomed from my perspective. This could be an illusion caused by becoming gradually more immersed in it.

Clojure will not die for now, for the same reason that it remains nieche - it's a lisp. Arguably the only viable full stack web dev lisp. And lispers gonna lisp. If that speaks to you on a philosophical/aesthetic level then go for it, you will be in good company.

If you want to try to time the hype market then truly best of luck. However, I think choosing to invest in a language that works for you and your way of thinking will be a less fragile strategy.

I'll keep Clojuring for a while at least, because it's a pleasure. Because it lets me reason where other languages would have me memorise. I find memorising syntax tedious. It's not a silver bullet of course - some things just make more sense for to do in a c/rust type procedural language.