Re:Clojure and the technology adoption curve
by nkassis on Tuesday November 10, 2015 @10:14AM
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I think (and have seen from personal experience) that some of those groups are more just individual teams that have adopted clojure on their own but are relatively niche and isolated from the larger companies. I don't think it's mostly made up of acquisitions. Teams in some large tech companies are free to choose the language that best fits their needs and so you can find pockets of clojure, go, etc ... around. Also the ones I've had personal experience with were all backend teams. I think clojurescript is still lagging backend clojure in tech companies but all I have is anecdotal evidence.
Re:Clojure and the technology adoption curve
by pjmlp on Tuesday November 10, 2015 @11:09AM
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Here in Germany I only see Clojure ads in relation to big data startups[0].
Very seldom do classic companies ask for anything other than JavaScript on the browser or Java on the JVM.
[0] Same applies to other FP languages on the JVM.
Re:Clojure and the technology adoption curve
by talloaktrees on Tuesday November 10, 2015 @03:52PM
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It's same same in the US outside of SF and NYC
While Clojure foundered a bit after its start in the race to become Java.next I think that what has ended up saving it, or at least given it new life that it really needed, is a particular combination that is not even mentioned anywhere in the article: Clojurescript and React wrappers like Om and Reagent. I know more people considering Clojure(script) as a path to a combined web app and mobile app (via React-native) than I do people looking at Clojure to power the back-end.