| It's great. Certainly matured a lot in the last 7 years. Of course, still small relative to other language communities (esp. JS and Python), but for web backends it's wonderful. http-kit is a solid server with a nice simple design and passable performance and features. next-jdbc is similar for relational database connections. In general, the JVM is very powerful and getting better all time, OpenJDK is an amazing project that answered many looming questions about Oracle's licensing plans. I'd say in the last 7 years in particular there's been a push toward more professional use of Clojure, with things like https://www.whyclojure.com/ popping up, and the prominent use at NuBank driving interest from consumer finance and finance-adjacent corporates. My personal interest is in Clojure's use in data science, which is related to web backends in that it can be used to tell a more complete full-stack story that can include analytics, prediction, etc... We're finding in our work that a functional approach to data science saves a lot of headaches, and Clojure's inherent orientation toward data eases a lot of pain we've encountered doing data science in non-functional ways in the past. Could probably try to pinpoint where Clojure is on the Gartner hype cycle today, as I certainly see less activity and frothy hobbyist fervor here and in other places; but that's a bit of a futile exercise. If you peel one layer off, you'll probably find that some of us just grew up and now are just happily and productively making money and things and helping people, with the immense leverage we always knew Clojure had. |