Yes, in fact there is also a good number of conferences, for instance in less than two days https://2024.heartofclojure.eu/ starts in Belgium for instance (meet me there ;-) ).
We are writing a trading system for a small broker company in Clojure/ ClojureScript with a Datomic centered backend. The previous company some of us on the team worked at had the code-base also in Clojure/ ClojureScript.
(I'm one of the founders of Latacora and reviewed the post.) If any of you are at Heart of Clojure, I'll be there both wearing my Latacora hat and my Clojurists Together hat :)
Btw. there is a new video from the Heart of Clojure Hallway track: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GEqzw6V31tk I think it really captures the great atmosphere in the community and some community leaders.
I would love for my next job to be in Common Lisp.
I do have a concern though. I see that at lots of companies the job is not a Go job or a Python job or a Javascript job, but a Go-at-Foocorp job or a Python-at-Bazco job or a Javascript-at-International-Clowns-Inc. job. What I mean is that the team have built so many leaky abstractions atop the core language, and added so many third-party tools, that the learning curve is steep and the skills non-transferable. On the one hand, who cares? We’re human, we can learn. But on the other it means that it can take significantly longer to ramp up and start delivering value than one would prefer.
What’s this have to do with Lisp? Well, while a well-written Lisp system will be faster to pick up and get started on that one in a less-powerful language (i.e., almost all of them), a poorly-written mess will be much, much slower. My concern is that I might leave a pretty good situation for what ends up being a dumpster fire — and then have to find a new job too quickly.
I'd say that market exists, but is kinda invisible.
I've been looking around for a junior with a passion for Common Lisp, but I have _no_ idea where to find one, especially in Germany (job's remote, but I'm currently not able to hire FTEs outside the country).
The annual Clojure/conj conference is coming up next month in Alexandria, VA (https://2024.clojure-conj.org) and there will be talks from a variety of companies, both big and small.
I was momentarily convinced that “crazy horse multiplier” must be an American idiom, and then realized that maybe the misspelled thing being multiplied is a force rather than a horse after all.
We (https://basil.net) are not new and not a startup, but our main language is Clojure and each new project is written in it. Very satisfied with our choice.
