2026
Clojure documentary
Watching this documentary about Clojure! I tried to learn and use clojure in the past. I was mostly trying to get at the core ideas of lisp that clojure adopts. But there was no commercial viability for my career in that. Later at my company we tried Datomic as our analytical database, and found out it meets a lot of our needs - but the management was not ready to commit to it as it looked so new compared to already established Snowflake.
I think Clojure and Datomic has captured the simplicity of building things with software but with a lot of conservatism to growth (like a typical SV funded company) and hence never became a mainstream thing.
This documentary captures the excitement of Clojure as a paradigm shifting language but also highlights Rich Hickey’s reservations to it’s growth.
