I'm glad you're still earning income from it. It was my favorite of the JVM alt-languages, but it just seemed to have died around 2015 with all the others.
I say "died" but I know that people still write in Scala and Groovy, but how many new projects are you seeing in those languages?
At one point I set out to find work doing Clojure, but not much turned up in my locale. I did one professional project at a former company and only got the green light for using Clojure because it was basically a throw-away in a couple years when a new business process was coming in anyways.
Good luck to you, but it's not a niche I would want to be in. You have to mold yourself to the market, not the other way around (usually).
I think 2015 was the year that Node started getting popular on the backend at the expense of some of the JVM technologies, but Clojure fortunately runs well on that platform too.
F# and Clojure are notably ranked as the highest paid languages for the past 2-3 years in a row. Trust me - market is shifting towards FP and Clojure one of the best choices.
I can easily speculate that not for the same reasons. F# and Clojure are the most payed languages because today they are the most used FP languages in fintech sector.
I say "died" but I know that people still write in Scala and Groovy, but how many new projects are you seeing in those languages?
At one point I set out to find work doing Clojure, but not much turned up in my locale. I did one professional project at a former company and only got the green light for using Clojure because it was basically a throw-away in a couple years when a new business process was coming in anyways.
Good luck to you, but it's not a niche I would want to be in. You have to mold yourself to the market, not the other way around (usually).