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> The growth of Clojure has been exponential both among users and clients. A few years ago nobody could have imagined that a Lisp would have such rapid uptake, but ...

Reality check. Both are in the noise:

http://www.indeed.com/jobtrends?q=scala%2C+clojure%2C+python...

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I think a more relevant leading indicator of Clojure popularity for the Hacker News crowd is GitHub. Clojure is bumping heads with Lua and Erlang at the moment and that is pretty cool.

Hacker News and Reddit are gamed by advocates and bloggers.

I recall "dons" (Haskell promoter) commenting on Reddit that it's awesome that 30% of Haskell's repositories can compile.

The amount of FOSS code in some collection means nothing.

Yes, they're noise compared to Java, of course; but he didn't imply that Clojure was going to overtake Java anytime soon - both metrics were introspective. Looking at this chart, the growth does seem to be both exponential and rapid:

http://www.indeed.com/jobtrends?q=scala%2C+clojure&l=

Yes, really encouraging:

http://www.indeed.com/jobtrends?q=scala%2C+clojure%2C+fortra...

Someday, they might even catch up to Fortran.

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