State of Clojure Survey 2019 Analysis
Okay, here&#x27;s my take on the implicit narrative here: Clojure is done. It will continue to improve, people will continue to use it and build cool things with it, but maintainers are burnt out, mostly because there aren&#x27;t enough of them and partly because of the passive-aggressive relationship Cognitect has with the community.<p>There&#x27;s a whole bunch of languages with small dedicated communities doing interesting stuff. D and Julia occur to me off the top of my head. It&#x27;s not &quot;failure&quot; that Clojure doesn&#x27;t really challenge Kotlin or Scala for mindshare. It&#x27;s nonetheless disappointing for people like me who used to be really excited by Clojure&#x27;s potential.<p>Could it have been different? I don&#x27;t know. The powers that be could definitely have been more committed to growing the base, but it never seems to have interested them. Would it have made a difference? I honestly don&#x27;t know.