[edwinnathaniel]

Every single time I visited on a github repo of a Clojure based project, almost all of them are structured nicely (src and test) and have unit-tests.

This alone makes me think that Clojure developers are just regular people who care of the maintainability aspect of their code (and quite possibly the readability). Not just a "hacker" that writes code and jump into the next shiny stuff.

As a non-participating viewer from afar, Clojure community seems to have less hipster, less emotional, less roller-coaster, but more mature feeling when it comes to software development.

It also helps that they have a unified build+dependency tools, not a bunch of "upcoming great projects that will solve your build+dependency problem for the umpteenth time".

[adrianhoward]

As a non-participating viewer from afar, Clojure community seems to have less hipster, less emotional, less roller-coaster, but more mature feeling when it comes to software development.

I wonder if the average age of clojure hackers is higher? I'm not in the Clojure community but it appeals to me (in my forties) coz... well... Lisp! Brings back fond memories of when I shared an office with the dude who did the Common Lisp implementation for Poplog.

The folk I know who are into Clojure are all in their 30s-40s.... but it's probably just sampling bias.

[edwinnathaniel]

If the Clojure folks are in the 30s and 40s that'll be awesome: a community for older software programmers (with a few dads or even grandpas in between).

We are not going to get any younger so I very much welcomed the existence of such community.