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by olah_1 1228 days ago
Rich Hickey’s talks may outlive Clojure itself.

In some sense, the principles he taught and aimed for were the ideal. Clojure today wasn’t necessarily the ideal.

I think there could be room for a better Clojure than Clojure, so to speak
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danuker 1228 days ago
Based on my analysis of Rosetta Code samples, Clojure is the most popular language with its compactness.

https://danuker.go.ro/programming-languages.html#non-math-ma...

Also, it has a low frequency of bugfix commits (which may or may not be related to bugs also). (but it might be the dev experience, I have not adjusted for it).

https://danuker.go.ro/frequency-of-bugfix-commits.html

In addition, the JVM gives it great performance, and it has actual CPU multithreading (while Python or other scripting languages have a GIL). This makes it relevant in today's environment where Moore's law continues through number of cores.

Therefore I don't think Clojure will die too soon.

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