Beyond the Hype: Obstacles on the Path to Clojure Adoption

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Clojure adoption stalls from concrete barriers: perceived steep learning curve, sparse familiar tooling, and a smaller job market (contrast cited: ~20 Clojure jobs vs ~20,000 JavaScript listings) despite a vibrant community of ~300 attendees. Proposals include beginner-friendly tutorials, targeted domain stacks (web, data science), more workshops/ClojureBridge outreach, and building a Rails/Django-style scaffold — with a concrete effort underway to create a Django-for-Clojure to speed real-world onboarding and show reproducible success stories.

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1. 0:00Introduction to Clojure adoption
2. 3:08The town metaphor for languages
3. 8:44Clojure’s vibrant community
4. 13:37Breaking the Clojure bubble
5. 20:23Building welcoming tools
6. 21:27Clojure is doing fine

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