Re:SICP in Clojure
by lispm on Sunday January 19, 2014 @08:17AM
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That sounds different like 'no adoption'. Based on that I would say Clojure has very little adoption. Probably there are a few hundred people using Clojure - not more. The latest State of Clojure survey had just 1000 people taking part. Half of those say they use Clojure at work - where work can be anything from academic to industry.
Clojure has to show a few websites, very few applications and a bunch of hobby projects.
Given that Clojure is at a different point in the hype cycle than Scheme or CL, it does not look like mass scale adoption rivalling Python, Ruby, C++, Objective C or Java is coming soon...
In this light there is absolutely no reason to make snide remarks about CL or Scheme 'industry' adoption, where for example Google uses CL, Sony uses Scheme for game programming, where companies use Siscog's scheduling applications, PTC sells CAD systems, Amdocs uses Allegro Cl in Telco applications, various spae and earth telescopes use a CL-based scheduling engine, various companies use ACL2, NASA has a theorem prover in Lisp, ...
If these apps were written in Clojure we would see large amounts of blog posts, ...
Clojure has to show a few websites, very few applications and a bunch of hobby projects.
Given that Clojure is at a different point in the hype cycle than Scheme or CL, it does not look like mass scale adoption rivalling Python, Ruby, C++, Objective C or Java is coming soon...
In this light there is absolutely no reason to make snide remarks about CL or Scheme 'industry' adoption, where for example Google uses CL, Sony uses Scheme for game programming, where companies use Siscog's scheduling applications, PTC sells CAD systems, Amdocs uses Allegro Cl in Telco applications, various spae and earth telescopes use a CL-based scheduling engine, various companies use ACL2, NASA has a theorem prover in Lisp, ...
If these apps were written in Clojure we would see large amounts of blog posts, ...