Can you elaborate on your experience?

I have great respect for Rich Hickey and I recently saw a cool talk about a financial startup using Clojure in production [1]. I have kept track of the language for some time but have never had the chance to use it in any serious capacity.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fnediEWRuyI

I think it’s a great language and a good community but I think some of the opposition to static types from Rich Hickey at the top is silly and I also find it genuinely harder to use languages which aren’t gaining wider traction after being around for over ten years.

Is the language community net growing or shrinking though? A language can be very alive and still not be experiencing tremendous growth.

Lazarus/Free Pascal is another example of a language still very alive, but not growing like crazy.

I first heard of it just now.