Why did Clojure gain so much popularity?

Ideas implemented in Clojure are not very new or truly revolutionary – but they have implemented in such a way that it makes it extremely pragmatic to solve real-life and not some esoteric problems. There is probably a very few things that you can do in Clojure that you cannot do in Java – that’s true. Most developer surveys of the past few years show that Clojure developers are among the highest paid.

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