Comment by lisbbb
7 months ago
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.
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.