<story><title>Ask HN: Who&apos;s using Clojure, and to do what?</title><text>Hello everyone,&lt;p&gt;I&apos;ve seen a lot of articles on HN recently talking about Clojure. I had a quick look at a few pages (Wikipedia, etc...), and I can&apos;t help but think that it sounds like the new cool language, pretty much like Ruby in 2007.&lt;p&gt;But to get a better idea, I&apos;d like to hear the feedback from the community: Who is using Clojure (in real-life cases), and what are you doing with it?&lt;p&gt;Bonus points if you can tell what specific features made it a better language for the task.</text></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>philh</author><text>Another important question to ask is: if you&apos;re not using clojure, is there a clojure-specific reason for that? (ie. &quot;I would use clojure but...&quot;)&lt;p&gt;In my case: I reported a bug in the clojure.contrib XML library, on the google group. It&apos;s a trivial fix, but not worth the hassle of signing a contributor agreement. So although I&apos;d fixed it myself, I couldn&apos;t send a patch. All I could do was report it - and the report was ignored.&lt;p&gt;Some time later, I reported another, deeper bug that I didn&apos;t know how to begin fixing (but did know a workaround for). It got ignored too.&lt;p&gt;I like the language, and I&apos;m not going to say my experience was typical of the community. I spent some time hanging out on the group and the people there seemed friendly and helpful. But that&apos;s one reason I no longer use it. (Another reason is &quot;no reason at all&quot;, and I don&apos;t know the relative weights of these reasons.)&lt;p&gt;This feels a little like whining to me, but feedback should be both positive and negative.</text></comment>
<story><title>Ask HN: Who&apos;s using Clojure, and to do what?</title><text>Hello everyone,&lt;p&gt;I&apos;ve seen a lot of articles on HN recently talking about Clojure. I had a quick look at a few pages (Wikipedia, etc...), and I can&apos;t help but think that it sounds like the new cool language, pretty much like Ruby in 2007.&lt;p&gt;But to get a better idea, I&apos;d like to hear the feedback from the community: Who is using Clojure (in real-life cases), and what are you doing with it?&lt;p&gt;Bonus points if you can tell what specific features made it a better language for the task.</text></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>gfodor</author><text>I work at Etsy. I launched a new search tool powered by Clojure last week:&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.etsy.com/explorer&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://www.etsy.com/explorer&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;It&apos;s used for the autosuggest and facet suggestion on the sidebar.&lt;p&gt;We&apos;ll be posting more about this on our tech blog sometime soon.</text></comment>