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This is basically the same reason that ClojureCLR has no traction.


One of the reasons. In general, I can see a low rate of acceptance of .NET among the crowd which has a high rate of interest in Clojure. I guess it is a case of avoiding Microsoft-dominated technologies by the open-source crowd.


As someone who uses both, I'll gladly be a supporting data point for this hypothesis.


And the Microsoft crowd is sometimes reluctant to embrace non-Microsoft technologies.


This is true, but I think the reasons are different. There has been a lot of usage knowledge created around the Microsoft platform(s), some supported by the community, but a lot still supported by the company. Moving in the open-source realm means losing a company's support, and I can see how those who are not used to it are uncomfortable with it.


I don't see how that's too different than if a dedicated open source user was to move to using MS products. Replace 'Microsoft' with OSS and 'company' with 'community', and the statement is still true.




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