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clojure vs haskell vs elixir on Hacker News

Across 2007–2026 of Hacker News, haskell leads clojure vs haskell vs elixir with 89,466 mentions to clojure’s 59,256, peaking in Apr 2014.

Mention-over-time for clojure vs haskell vs elixir, overlaid across 2007–2026 of Hacker News. Each line is a live date-histogram over ~45M posts and comments, computed with Upstash Redis Search.

clojure59,256 mentions, peak May 2020haskell89,466 mentions, peak Apr 2014elixir34,822 mentions, peak Jul 2017
2008201120142017202020232026
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How the lead changed hands

The functional language HN couldn't stop talking about: Clojure's Lisp-on-the-JVM moment ~2009–11, Haskell's purity debates ~2012, then Elixir rides the Erlang revival 2016–18.

The stories behind each line

Top “clojure” stories
  1. A History of Clojure [pdf] 627 points · 2020
  2. Try Clojure 552 points · 2024
  3. Ask HN: Is it just me, or is CSS too damn hard? 499 points · 2019
  4. Clojure.spec – Rationale and Overview 474 points · 2016
Top “haskell” stories
  1. Paul Hudak, co-creator of Haskell, has died 1,014 points · 2015
  2. Comparing the Same Project in Rust, Haskell, C++, Python, Scala and OCaml 783 points · 2019
  3. The New Haskell Homepage 506 points · 2014
  4. Ask HN: Is it just me, or is CSS too damn hard? 499 points · 2019
Top “elixir” stories
  1. How Discord Scaled Elixir to 5M Concurrent Users 802 points · 2017
  2. Coordinating the Superbowl's visual fidelity with Elixir 644 points · 2025
  3. Livebook: A collaborative and interactive code notebook for Elixir 585 points · 2021
  4. Achieving 100k connections per second with Elixir 544 points · 2019

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