The language itself is still getting updates, a new major release was just dropped a month or two ago.

I do find that for about 5 years things seemed to be slowing down. Though I keep seeing it pop up, and new exciting projects seem to pop up from time to time.

Just today I saw an article about Dyna3, a relational programming language for AI and ML that was implemented on top of Clojure.

I miss the Strange Loop conference. I think a lot of Clojure buzz was generated there. Clojure West and a few others so a decent job, but the quality of the talks at Strange Loop were second to none. Not that it was a Clojure specific conference, but it had that focus on elegance that I don't see very often, and the organizer was a something like the Prince of Clojure, if I recall correctly.

I'm still enjoying the language, and all my projects still build and run just fine.

The major frustration I have with the platform is 3D graphics. That's a JVM issue overall though.

I just saw a small 3D demo running at 120fps+ that some of the newer JVM vector APIs supposedly enable.

Link to demo @ timestamp: https://youtu.be/UVsevEdYSwI?t=653

My experience with 3D graphics is minimal, but I'm curious to know if these newer developments are significant in any way for 3D work.

I absolutely loved Hickey's talks even when I never used Clojure more than for a few simple examples.

To be fair, that is only so much that a Lisp can have as foundation beyond the core forms and macros, especially when it doesn't control the runtime.

Cursive, Calva and CIDER are already quite good.

After that, it is all about the ecosystem, what libraries people care to build.

This is for games? Did you try evaluating Jank that seems to be a LLVM based "native" variant?

They even invited Guy Lewis Steele, Jr. hos talk is on YouTube and was awesome. His meta-notation is explained more expansively in a paper on his Oracle page.