yes it's just my opinion. but Clojure's market share is tiny so there must be something to that.

it's not even in the top 50 here: https://www.tiobe.com/tiobe-index/. Lisp is 26.

Antibabelic 3 hours ago | parent | next [-]

"The TIOBE index measures how many Internet pages exist for a particular programming language."

For some reason I doubt this is in any way representative of the real world. Scratch, which is a teaching language for children, bigger than PHP? Which is smaller than Rust? Yeah, these are results you get when you look at the Internet, alright.

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thunky 2 hours ago | parent [-]

Sure that index isn't great (I think it's basically a regurgitation of Google Trends), but I don't think you're suggesting Clojure is actually a popular language are you? Which is the only point I'm trying to make (that it isn't popular).

	▲	Antibabelic 2 hours ago \| parent [-]
		Clojure is reasonably popular as far as programming languages go. It's not difficult to get a job as a Clojure developer, particularly in certain sectors (fintech and healthcare are the heaviest Clojure users). Of course C++, Java, C# and PHP dwarf both Clojure and Rust by several orders of magnitude.

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embedding-shape 3 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

If anything, I think that makes Clojure better. Almost no one in the community is doing stuff to serve "lowest common denominator", compared to how most of JS/TS development is being done, which is a breeze of fresh air for more senior programmers.

Besides, the community and ecosystem is large enough that there are multiple online spaces for you to get help, and personally I've been a "professional" (employed + freelancing) Clojure/Script developer for close to 7 years now, never had any issues finding new gigs or positions, also never had issues hiring for Clojure projects either.

Sometimes "big enough" is just that, big enough :)

	▲	thunky 2 hours ago \| parent [-]
		I'm glad it works for you and many others and gives you a good living. Nothing wrong with that. I wasn't trying to attack it or anyone that uses it, just stating why I never warmed up to it and projecting why I think it hasn't become popular.