It'd be interesting to back the claim that "Clojure is (slowly) eating the world.".
Interestingly, that's absolutely not my perspective and I don't see any sources for that statement in the post.
Interestingly, that's absolutely not my perspective and I don't see any sources for that statement in the post.
https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?date=all&geo=US&q=c...
Sure, it ain't Typescript or whatever, but it's definitely not declining.
When Clojure was started it didn't have much competition in JVM languages space. There was Scala only. Right now we have also Kotlin, which seems to be hitting the sweet spot between being a better Java and being difficult to grasp (like Scala or Clojure). In addition Java alone is getting better, so it is harder and harder to eat its cake.
There's relatively small but vocal Emacs community. There are no books being published; almost no podcasts; it took forever to organize a conference, but they still couldn't find a venue, so it was a video-conference. Every few years there's a new "Emacs killer" but the ecosystem (after over 40 years) is very much alive and thriving.
Same thing can be said about Clojure. It's a very vibrant ecosystem and there's a lot happening in Clojuresphere, but of course, with almost every post about Clojure, there would be at least one person to claim - "Clojure is dying." Well, if that's true, then buckle-up folks. It's going to be a very long, steady ride.