In a previous life, I wrote Clojure every day and still look back fondly attending Clojure/Conj and sitting next to Rich Hickey and other Clojure greats at dinner.

My first startup was all Clojure. AWS only had a dozen or two products and I think we must have been the first to compile Clojure to JS and run it on Lambda in production (the only runtime was Node.js 0.10 at the time).

Anyway, I cannot wait to watch this

Excellent. The only thing I wish they had added was borkdude.

didn't know datomic was free of licensing fees - I didn't use it back in the day because the cost was prohibitive... interesting

Incredible: I had not idea NuBank discovered Datomic first and that it's Datomic that led them to Clojure, 100 million+ customers, and eventually acquiring Cognitect.

Good to see David Nolen (aka "swanodette") is in the documentary too.

As a bonus here's a recent talk from David Nolen about Clojure/ClojureScript and using DOM morphing instead of React.

If you don't want to watch it all, just take two minutes to watch from 23m15s to 25m15s. He compares a behemoth slurping all the browser's CPU and RAM resources versus a 13 Kb of JavaScript + Web components and DOM morphing:

https://youtu.be/BeE00vGC36E

His talk is presented from Emacs, gotta love that too...

is clojure still relevant in the post agentic coding reality that opens up pretty much all esoteric languages to everyone ?

back in the day used to use clojure to write a fintech app but not sure if it is still relevant has uses vs other langs that have emerged

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AI slop Rich is gross considering his stance on it. I guess it's up to the producers but very tone deaf.