Comment by iLemming

> That is because Clojure is done

First of all: Clojure is not "done". Latest commits were 3 months ago - https://github.com/clojure/clojure. Secondly, the language intentionally not 'all batteries-included' PL. The core is meant to be a stable, minimal substrate. Most action happens in libraries and tools - core.async, spec & malli, babashka, nbb, etc. Check the activity in Clojurians Slack. It's a small but unusually vibrant community, every single day there are news and announcements - updates, etc. It is done-ness in the good sense - like a well-designed tool that doesn't need to keep changing its handle.

> market share adoption kind of shows it

NuBank being the world's largest digital bank and running Clojure at scale is not "adoption"? Besides, there's Apple, Cisco, and tons of smaller companies running on it.

> there is hardly anything being done

They are making a documentary https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JJEyffSdBsk Please don't say: "well, there are documentaries about dinosaurs" or something. I've been using Clojure for over ten years - in different teams, companies, industries. For my own projects and professionally. I've heard about it "dying" back then. I keep hearing about it dying every year and I promise you - nothing like that (even remotely) happening. Yes, the hype is gone (was it ever real?), but the language, community, library ecosystem, tooling - all of that only getting better.

There's no "killing" of Lisp. As long as programming languages remain relevant, there will always be some Lisp-dialect around. It probably never will become mainstream, yet it never completely disappears. There's no killing of Lisp, because it would be like killing "graph theory" or something. Graph theory doesn't need a Fortune 500 company funding it to remain true. Similarly, a small community keeping a Lisp dialect alive is all it takes - and there will always be people drawn to the clarity you get when you strip a language down to its lambda-calculus bones and see the whole thing fit in your head at once.

Rich Hickey has made this point himself - Clojure isn't trying to be the most popular language, it's trying to be correct about certain things. And correctness doesn't go out of fashion.