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Comment by csdrane | Hacker News Reader

Seems to me like Clojure is experience a popularity surge on HN lately. I wonder what's driving this.

Maybe my perception is just biased because I'm currently learning Clojure.

Clojure stories are experiencing a slight surge, but not an unusual one. When I search on Hacker News by date, like https://hn.algolia.com/?q=clojure#!/story/forever/prefix/0/c... (UNIX timestamps format), I can calculate that there are more stories with “Clojure” in the title than last month, but it is within normal fluctuations.

In the last four month-long periods, beginning with April 9 to May 9 and ending with July 9 to August 9, the number of “Clojure” stories were [36, 41, 32, 41]. So the 41 stories of the most recent month is more than the previous month, but the same as the month before that.

My completely unfounded theory: Clojurescript is starting to get a lot of traction because of David Nolen's Om which has caused a surge of interest based on its excellent performance characteristics and clean and easy to reason about code (mainly due to the use of persistent data structures). This naturally leads to people getting interested in Clojure the language as well

That's strange, because I also noticed that, and I'm also starting to learn Clojure.

Same here

I have also been convinced to start learning clojure. Also on the hn posting thread, a company called fracture had a relatively interesting job application, and if the kind of people who write clojure write tongue in cheek shit like then I want to start learning.

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