Clojure at Netflix (2013) [slides]

Re:Clojure at Netflix (2013) [slides] by zmmmmm on Wednesday October 31, 2018 @06:25PM (#18349738)

I like the CloudFoundry report [1] better as a reflection of what businesses are actually using rather than search engine metrics (TIOBE) which are overly influenced by controversy and search engine methodologies than actual usage. However it's no prettier a picture, almost no functional languages in the list at all, only Scala making a significant dent (and you can debate whether that is functional or not). Other JVM languages like Groovy are significantly ahead of Clojure in all rankings.

[1] https://www.cloudfoundry.org/wp-content/uploads/Developer-La...

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Re:Clojure at Netflix (2013) [slides] by vorg on Thursday November 01, 2018 @05:42AM (#18352368)

> Other JVM languages like Groovy are significantly ahead of Clojure in all rankings.

Apache Groovy fluctuates on TIOBE a lot. Six months ago it was at the same 50-ish position as Clojure, which is its usual ranking. It's shot up only in the past 6 months, which has also happened a lot in the past and is always followed by a sudden fall -- perhaps someone's gaming the search engine rankings. On Redmonk, Groovy and Clojure have ranked equal-ish for a long time. In the CloudFoundry report, Groovy is at the same very low rank as Others which would include Clojure if present.

So Groovy and Clojure are at the same ranking in all rankings I've looked at.

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