Discussion time!!
What one thing would most accelerate Clojure’s user growth?
Unpopular opinions and wild ideas welcome
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I think it would be enough to be packaged in a very easy to reach manner. Do you think expound being bundled with clojure mode on most popular editors would do it? I mean Java is the most popular language and it's highly coupled to ides in terms of usefulness.
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It would be helpful and cool, but overall I think there is a categorical difference if it's an affordance of the language/environment. That way it has bearing on all other compromises and design decisions (same thing why spec is such a win over Schema).
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Are you saying that only good error messages that are part of the language would increase growth? That is, the "categorical difference" you mention is important for growth?
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Good error messages reduce churn, exceptional error messages can be a marquee feature (see Elm), that gets people who are on the fence to try Clojure.
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I agree. But I also think the Elm crowd is doing better marketing. They're talking about how great the error messages are and telling a compelling story. They're taking the strengths they have and using them to get people to try it. We have plenty of great stuff to sell!
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True. I'm super bullish on Clojure ever since spec came out, but marketing and onboarding could be so much better.
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Who is doing good work in this area? How can I amplify them?
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I remembered one: I like
@juxtpro's series showcasing companies using Clojure.
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