On Fri, Apr 24, 2015 at 11:50 AM, Colin Fleming <[email protected]
> wrote:

> Google trends begs to differ:
> https://www.google.com/trends/explore#q=clojure%2C%20clojurescript&cmpt=q&tz=
>

I think extrapolating from Google trends is probably not that useful for
measuring usage.


> I was surprised by this because there seems to be a similar level of
> traffic on the two mailing lists and ClojureScript has had a lot of great
> work done on it recently, and I had put it down to the fact that Cursive
> didn't have a very good CLJS REPL story. Perhaps that wasn't the reason
> after all.
>

I know that personally there was really little incentive for me to write
ClojureScript applications with Cursive until even a couple of weeks ago
without a sensible REPL. But Cursive is still really not that pleasant with
ClojureScript, as there are a *very* large number of distracting analysis
gaps wrt. ClojureScript idioms. This would be enough for many people to
stick with an Emacs/Vim workflow.

I think a better metric is probably measuring downloads of something on
Clojars that's going to be on many dependency graphs.

https://clojars.org/cljsjs/react/versions/0.12.2-5 vs.
https://clojars.org/ring/versions/1.3.2

That said, I think the surveys are likely biased towards production Clojure
users where ClojureScript is probably a more useful element of the stack.
For example, I would be surprised if that 50% applied to hobbyists or
anyone who doesn't have the requisite JavaScript knowledge to be productive.

David

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