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> Electric looks awesome, but their stern warning of “we are building this for ourselves, and if you get value that’s great” gave me pause.

Clojure (the core language) is developed in exactly the same way, Rich Hickey is pretty forthcoming with the approach they take. So if a framework with that approach gives you pause, probably Clojure the language should do the same. Relevant: https://gist.github.com/richhickey/1563cddea1002958f96e7ba95...

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But I know Clojure is in use in quite a few places, and it has quite a few really capable people supporting it in one way or another. Plus it has good documentation and several books teaching it. That's very different from a slick (and impressive) framework built by one company for themselves.

Also, code written for Electric is very specific to Electric. But Clojure is just functional-first Lisp. It's very easy to rewrite in another language, even an imperative language. There wouldn't be a huge paradigm shift translating Clojure to any of half a dozen popular languages.

Clojure not developed in the same way - it's really conservative about backwards compatibility and puts a lot of thought in existing users. Electric is still making backwards incompatible changes, in contrast.

You're probably thinking about the open source community developed project vs "it's not a democracy" aspect where Clojure is definitely in the latter camp.

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