Re:Jank Programming Language
by lisbbb on Thursday July 10, 2025 @04:35PM
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I was a Clojure fan back around 2011. I'm just curious how you make a living with these esoteric languages? I was able to build exactly two back-end services using Clojure as a PoC back then, which was 14 years ago, and then the whole Clojure thing basically died. I'm shocked to see any resurgence of it or LISP in 2025.
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Clojure is still going and, in terms of dialects, still growing. According to the 2024 Stack Overflow survey, Clojure is the third highest paying job by language. https://survey.stackoverflow.co/2024/technology#top-paying-t...
While interesting, I wasn't able to capitalize on it and ultimately dropped it, despite my enjoyment of using it.
had a bunch of projects (long lived infra projects) until a few years ago and nowadays i mainly use it for scripting (with babashka).
changed job to a startup a few weeks ago, so some more clojure getting in there!
plenty of jobs don't mandate languages on everything.