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On “Completely blown away by Java interop in Clojure”
…ion that Rails somehow suggests a good ecosystem is debatable at best, and a reliance on libraries over frameworks is not at all uncommon in the wider technological world; since you seem to like popularity, it should be mentioned that the most popular language of all, JavaScript, uses a library approach (video exploring the pros and cons of that: [video )
On your last point, that of popularity, while i do think popularity is a valid indicator of technical utility, one cannot deny that functional languages, lisps, and currently not-popular languages face stigmas as well as more practical problems in PR and hiring, which affect decisions that then get made on non-technical grounds (Can i…