Most "Clojure isn't popular because X" reasons fall flat because you can always find a really popular language with X. Bad error messages, no types, runs on JVM, bad beginner experience, etc.
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We should reverse the question: how did Clojure beat the odds and get as popular as it did?
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My answers: Latent Lisp Love (no good Lisp option when Clojure came out) Rich Hickey's early evangelism
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Latent lisp love and fledging interest in FP. I think the later brought in both a contingent from CL as well as people from Ruby who found the overall ethos more familiar than Ocaml or Haskell.
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