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Comment by gizmo385 | Hacker News Reader

Have you given Clojure a try?

I haven't. I've been prejudiced against the jvm for most of my career (mostly because of how heinously Oracle has treated Sun's corpse). I'm over it now.

Thanks for reminding me to consider it.

I'll look at it today.

It reminds me of a real world Scheme. Not identical, but similar.

I am a heavy Emacs user, so I need to occasionally write emacs-lisp. The other lisp I use from time to time is Fennel. Clojure I use at work. I have to say: having to use other lisps makes you appreciate how incredibly nice Clojure is. I think every programmer at least should try Clojure.

I've been obsessed with Clojure for a while, but seriously struggle finding a job where I can use it professionally. How'd you manage that? Any tips?

When was the last time you've tried? There's plenty of Clojure jobs today. Many Clojure companies (if not the most) are willing to hire remote. Clojure is steadily growing. Clojure conferences popping around the globe - Clojure/South, Clojure/North, Heart Of Clojure, ClojureTRE, Dutch Clojure Days, ClojureX (it feels like every European country has its own Clojure conf now).

I've been using Clojure for almost four years - switched three different jobs, never had a problem with finding a Clojure gig.

There are #jobs and #jobs-discuss channels on Clojurians Slack, watch those, some good job postings happen there.

Yes.

https://clojure.org/community/success_stories

https://clojure.org/community/companies

Hope that helps!

If your manager trusts you, and the organization is structured to support it, you occasionally get the chance to write a project in your language of choice. Be sure that you’re thoroughly proficient with the language, runtime, and tooling before trying to introduce it though.

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