clojure-europe 2023-05-17

vijaykiran02:05:04

> Clojure: present in the back half of our top 20 from the years 2014 to 2017, Clojure has now slipped down to 27 – which admittedly is outperforming fellow one time high fliers Visual Basic at 30 and CoffeeScript at 31. A Lisp dialect that was one of the Groovy/JRuby/etc JVM-based Java alternatives, Clojure has steadily lost ground in these rankings, as have most of its counterparts with the exception of Scala. It’s fair to wonder how much the rapid growth of Kotlin has impacted these, because in addition to competing with other languages, the JVM-based cohort is competing for space on top of that specific platform. > https://redmonk.com/sogrady/2023/05/16/language-rankings-1-23/

Daniel Craig02:05:15

“we extract language rankings from GitHub and Stack Overflow, and combine them for a ranking that attempts to reflect both code (GitHub) and discussion (Stack Overflow) traction” Clojure isn’t really strong on Stack Overflow… taking this result with a grain of salt

vijaykiran07:05:50

Yeah - these numbers usually not that reliable - but it is interesting that they wrote a special paragraph about Clojure 🙂 And outperforming Visual Basic 🚀

iperdomo07:05:44

The clojars mirror at https://mvnrepository.com/repos/clojars shows another datapoint (number of published packages per year)

genRaiy06:05:27

Good morning. Saw these guys last night

😆 10

jkxyz14:05:20

Ashamed to tell you how long it took me to realize this was just a poster at Kings Cross

😂 2

genRaiy21:05:22

In fairness, i live in Belgium so it is a travelogue 😂

dharrigan06:05:08

Good Morning!