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But also: https://survey.stackoverflow.co/2024/work#3-salary-and-exper...

Prolog and Dart programmers earn the least, but Erlang and Clojure programmers earn the most? Something is fishy here...

I would take this statistics, like every other one, with a grain of salt, but still wanted to put it out there as a possible discussion point.

Likely just not a statistically significant enough sample of any of those to justify them even putting them on the chart. Except maybe Dart, and that gets the "curse" of being front-end tech which for some inexplicable reason is underpaid.

Yeah, that seems likely. Although it's lower than PHP!

>>Clojure programmers earn the most?

All the best finding a Clojure job though.

Im guessing they pay all that much, while simultaneously cursing themselves for not using Python instead, and swearing to never use Clojure again.

I know that as I have seen people do and say similar things about Perl and Erlang in the last decade.

Nope. I mostly happily used Python in my previous job for many years, now I'm doing Clojure. There are benefits and drawbacks to each, but I don't know if I'd want to go back to Python. I'm a Lisper (Schemer, really) at heart so maybe I'm biased.

Having said that, I don't think I'd pick Clojure for unpaid (hobby) projects. The JVM is such a hog and I don't like anything related to the Java culture...

I suspect kamaal meant that the people who hired you are cursing themselves for making such an expensive decision.

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