> I found myself frustrated a lot when I used it two years ago.
Sad to hear about your experience.
> A lot of abandoned libraries. There's not a huge ecosystem around it compared to golang
I found it to be the opposite. In Clojure you have Clojurists Together: https://www.clojuriststogether.org which funds people to work on Open Source libraries.
And more importantly there is Clojure Commons: https://github.com/clj-commons which takes popular Clojure libraries, that are no longer being supported and carries on looking after them.
When I found popular Go libraries that have been abandoned, I asked in the Go community, if there are such initiatives, especially seeing how Google is behind Go. When people didn't understand what I meant, I pointed them at the examples above, from Clojure. To which their response was "TIL, Clojure, never heard of it before! No, we don't have such initiatives in Go."
Maybe the initiatives from Clojure Commons & Clojurists Together need more visibility for the newcomers to Clojure?
Sad to hear about your experience.
> A lot of abandoned libraries. There's not a huge ecosystem around it compared to golang
I found it to be the opposite. In Clojure you have Clojurists Together: https://www.clojuriststogether.org which funds people to work on Open Source libraries. And more importantly there is Clojure Commons: https://github.com/clj-commons which takes popular Clojure libraries, that are no longer being supported and carries on looking after them.
When I found popular Go libraries that have been abandoned, I asked in the Go community, if there are such initiatives, especially seeing how Google is behind Go. When people didn't understand what I meant, I pointed them at the examples above, from Clojure. To which their response was "TIL, Clojure, never heard of it before! No, we don't have such initiatives in Go."
Maybe the initiatives from Clojure Commons & Clojurists Together need more visibility for the newcomers to Clojure?