[joshlemer]

Yeah, Elixir's Pheonix if anything demonstrates how important a flagship framework/stack plays a huge role in driving language adoption. Despite Elixir coming out after Clojure, and running on a VM that is more esoteric/niche than the JVM, and having a host language which is 1000 times smaller in popularity and library ecosystem size, it still is probably more popular than Clojure at this point and almost all of that is from people picking up Elixir to use Pheonix. And Clojure's use is not just staying where it is, it seems to be in free fall. There used to be dozens of Clojure job postings in Canada, now without exaggeration I don't think there's a single one.