Official Clojure Documentary page with Video, Shownotes, and Links
by adityaathalye on 4/16/2026, 7:32:18 PM
https://clojure.org/about/documentary
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by: mkw5053
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.<p>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).<p>Anyway, I cannot wait to watch this
4/16/2026, 9:41:14 PM
by: boriskourt
I’ve been using Clojure since 2013, and can say that it has been an enormous positive force in my life. I’ve been a very unorthodox user, most of my artworks were built using Clojure in some way. But I’ve also worked in industry, and there I think Clojure helped me avoid burnout on more than one occasion. Especially when running a startup built half on it :)<p>It’s also been a privilege to participate in the community. From Clojure west to the Conj, to the online discussions. Huge thanks to everyone that’s made this possible over the decades.
4/17/2026, 6:50:05 AM
by: pjmlp
Clojure is my favourite alternative language on the JVM, besides offering what Lisps have provided for decades, their philosophy of embracing the host platform, instead of all the talk that the next JVM will be rewriten in it like some others do, makes being around Clojure folks much more appealing.
4/17/2026, 5:39:45 AM
by: christophilus
Excellent. The only thing I wish they had added was borkdude.
4/17/2026, 12:48:03 AM
by: ajdegol
didn't know datomic was free of licensing fees - I didn't use it back in the day because the cost was prohibitive... interesting
4/16/2026, 11:08:50 PM
by: TacticalCoder
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.<p>Good to see David Nolen (aka "swanodette") is in the documentary too.<p>As a bonus here's a recent talk from David Nolen about Clojure/ClojureScript and using DOM morphing instead of React.<p>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:<p><a href="https://youtu.be/BeE00vGC36E" rel="nofollow">https://youtu.be/BeE00vGC36E</a><p>His talk is presented from Emacs, gotta love that too...
4/16/2026, 10:51:13 PM
by: agentifysh
is clojure still relevant in the post agentic coding reality that opens up pretty much all esoteric languages to everyone ?<p>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
4/16/2026, 10:36:56 PM
by: kevinten10
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by: malindasp
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4/17/2026, 12:25:17 AM
by: ares623
AI slop Rich is gross considering his stance on it. I guess it's up to the producers but very tone deaf.
4/16/2026, 9:48:32 PM