SO did an analysis of liked/disliked languages as expressed by user preference data on their jobs site. https://stackoverflow.blog/2017/10/31/disliked-programming-languages/

Of interest, perhaps, for the clojure community: “One tag that stands out is the functional language Clojure; almost nobody expresses dislike for it, but it’s still among the most rapidly shrinking (based on question visits, it only started shrinking in the last year or so).”

it moved to slack/reddit

nothing special

slack grew over the past year or so

by few k of people

Controversial idea: SO is only suited to "clear" questions, and beginners struggle to find the root cause and just "try stuff" until their problems stop. Not necessarily a point I agree with, but I could see how it might be true.

I would imagine that a large part is related to the adoption of slack

When was Clojurians created? I haven’t been around this community very long.

Approx March 2015

(The first channels -- #clojure and #admin-announcements -- were created on March 1, 2015)

So we've been around two and a half years... time flies!

thanks