This has been something I've been trying to answer and can't arrive at a conclusion.
I can't tell if I happen to have lucked out for the first time ever working with really good engineers, and that's why the Clojure code bases I currently work on are overall better. Or if it has anything to do with Clojure itself.
From my prior work experience: Scala, Java, C#, JavaScript, ActionScript 3, C++; the code bases were always kind of crap. Everything was always called "legacy code", even if it was something that we had built just the year before.
Similarly, in the open source, or even language core, things were always deprecating one after another, new release introducing breaking changes, and you had to constantly play the upgrade and refactor game to keep things working. That in turn contributed to making our own code bases so called "legacy", as the framework used even a few months back is being deprecated, or libraries you depend on that you can't upgrade to the newest release without breaking everything so you stick to outdated dependencies.
None of that happens in Clojure, things are mostly stable for decades.
I can't tell if I happen to have lucked out for the first time ever working with really good engineers, and that's why the Clojure code bases I currently work on are overall better. Or if it has anything to do with Clojure itself.
From my prior work experience: Scala, Java, C#, JavaScript, ActionScript 3, C++; the code bases were always kind of crap. Everything was always called "legacy code", even if it was something that we had built just the year before.
Similarly, in the open source, or even language core, things were always deprecating one after another, new release introducing breaking changes, and you had to constantly play the upgrade and refactor game to keep things working. That in turn contributed to making our own code bases so called "legacy", as the framework used even a few months back is being deprecated, or libraries you depend on that you can't upgrade to the newest release without breaking everything so you stick to outdated dependencies.
None of that happens in Clojure, things are mostly stable for decades.