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I really love Clojure, but these days I'm still mostly a Java/Kotlin guy. Haven't seen any Clojure job or Clojure being used in production yet, unfortunately.

Sadly, that is a common fate for Lisp(-like) languages nowadays. People are scared of unusual syntax.

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I'm curious - how hard have you looked? There are lists with clojure success stories [0] [1] [2] and quite a few companies hiring clojure devs [0] [3] [4].

Anecdotally, there are 5 startups within a 1 mile radius of my office (in Charlottesville, VA) whose primary stack is clojure.

[0] https://clojure.org/community/success_stories

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14302762&__s=r8nvw64mp3...

[2] https://github.com/clojure/clojurescript/wiki/Companies-Usin...

[3] https://www.indeed.com/q-Clojure-jobs.html

[4] http://hnhiring.me/ (search "Clojure", top right)

Sorry, should have mentioned that I'm not in US

We’re based in Bristol, UK and are exclusively Clojure on the backend and starting to use Datomic in production this year.

There are a few other clojure focussed companies in Bristol too.

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