Why Clojure? (2010)
So, why not clojure? (Warning: subjective, and a bit toungue in cheek):<p>- Clojure is a Lisp. Lisps are very elegant in their simple tree syntax, so compilers like them, and reasoning about Lisp code is a joy. However no one has yet figured out how to represent Lisp code in good a way that doesn&#x27;t require a large number of parentheses, often stacked together in groups of three or four. If you have a slight astigmatism this (((()) will not help.<p>- It&#x27;s a jvm language. That has gives all the benefits you want in a functional language such as type erasure meaning you can&#x27;t make a data structure of primitive types without either pretending they are objects (boxing) or writing a custom type. Also, you have access to the vast amount of jvm libraries, almost all of which use mutable data structures and nulls everywhere. Jvm lacking proper tail calls will also give you the joy of having to manually specify when you want tail recursion rather than just recursion...from the tail.