<story><title>State of Clojure Survey 2019 Analysis</title><url>https://danielcompton.net/2019/02/06/clojure-survey-2019</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>jakebasile</author><text>I&amp;#x27;ve said it before and I&amp;#x27;ll say it again, the industry can rip Clojure from my cold, dead hands. It&amp;#x27;s unfortunate that people in this thread seem to down on the language, but the only possible way I would stop using it is if I literally cannot earn income with it. It is by far the most pleasant language I&amp;#x27;ve ever used, I feel at home writing it, and it improves the quality of my work.</text></comment>
<story><title>State of Clojure Survey 2019 Analysis</title><url>https://danielcompton.net/2019/02/06/clojure-survey-2019</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>moomin</author><text>Okay, here&amp;#x27;s my take on the implicit narrative here: Clojure is done. It will continue to improve, people will continue to use it and build cool things with it, but maintainers are burnt out, mostly because there aren&amp;#x27;t enough of them and partly because of the passive-aggressive relationship Cognitect has with the community.&lt;p&gt;There&amp;#x27;s a whole bunch of languages with small dedicated communities doing interesting stuff. D and Julia occur to me off the top of my head. It&amp;#x27;s not &amp;quot;failure&amp;quot; that Clojure doesn&amp;#x27;t really challenge Kotlin or Scala for mindshare. It&amp;#x27;s nonetheless disappointing for people like me who used to be really excited by Clojure&amp;#x27;s potential.&lt;p&gt;Could it have been different? I don&amp;#x27;t know. The powers that be could definitely have been more committed to growing the base, but it never seems to have interested them. Would it have made a difference? I honestly don&amp;#x27;t know.</text></comment>