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There're about 140 TS libraries vs. 70-80 Clojure/ClojureScript projects (around only half of which are libraries).

I partially stopped with the Clojure work because of lack of community/support, perf & workflow issues and changing interests (e.g. got back into C/Forth/STM32). Before that, I've tried for 4-5 years to encourage more people adopting CLJ/CLJS and to provide tools for graphics, data viz, digital fabrication etc. to make the language more appealing/useful for these folks. In hindsight it seems I gave up a year too early... Still, I find the TS monorepo workflow much more suitable for myself (and for the project), since large scale refactoring without types often has been a complete nightmare in Clojure (also using Literate Programming/org-mode made it even harder in these case). Plus, trying to write performant cross-environment code (for realtime graphics) in CLJC has been a quite painful/hairy experience. Still, as I said before, I do have very fond memories of the 6-7 years spent with the language & community. It's been partially commercial suicide (at the time), but an huge and important learning experience and I'm happy that (in the end) quite a few people found (and still do find) those tools useful...




I tried to get more people to pay attention to what you were doing, and still miss you in the Clojure community.




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