Off the Grid

I was researching on ideal Functional Programming for the Java Platform and narrowed the search to "Clojure" or "Scala". There has been lots of discussion on the topic as to which will be the next big thing (essential replace java), I decided not to go into comparison war here, but recommend Clojure vs Scala in you are interested.

Both are amazing languages, being from the Ruby background, I'm a bit biased towards Clojure but decided to some research on what the talent market's reactions are.

On an Absolute scale, Scala seem to out trend Clojure. Below is the chart to support that claim and also a Simply Hire search returned about 255 new Jobs.

But then on an Relative Scale, Clojure has shown remarkable growth. Even though the Simply Hired search returned around 107 Jobs, 8000% percent growth in less than an year is hard to ignore.

Conclusions. I've decided to go with Clojure cause the syntax proved to be much cleaner and of course has much tighter integration with Java. STM implementation is also genius in Clojure. Bottom line, the decision is yours make and really depends on your preference.