Clojure 1.6 released
I've switched my own back end codebase to Clojure. It's just a joy to work with. Building REST with Liberator is a revelation. It's so easy to <i>reason</i> about what the code is doing, and immutability leads to far fewer bugs. Not missing objects, not at all.<p>The stock concern for businesses building with Clojure is the lack of talent and industry acceptance. I have a different angle. I figure that when I'm ready to start hiring other developers, I'll only be hiring developers sophisticated enough to see the benefits of using Clojure over Java/Ruby/Python/etc - and then I'll have the draw of letting them work in the best tools, not making them compromise so it's easier for management to hire less serious programmers.