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I don’t know of any collected data to support the claims in this Quora answer, but I think it does a decent job highlighting the different interpretations of “popularity”: https://www.quora.com/Which-is-the-most-popular-Lisp-dialect...

What’s your definition of popularity when you say that Clojure “is by far and away the most popular lisp”?

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Number of github repos, which likely correlates to number of users. It also is probably a better gauge of the number of maintained, relevant libraries available. Clojure is used in production quite a bit nowadays, and there are excellent libraries for all kinds of modern tasks.

https://redmonk.com/sogrady/2018/03/07/language-rankings-1-1...

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