I&#x27;ve recently (about two weeks ago) picked up Clojure for use on a side project after getting frustrated with trying to use Haskell for something non-trivial -- not smart enough for Haskell, apparently :D<p>Haven&#x27;t messed with a LISP language since college but clojure has grown on me considerably.  I already like it more than Scala... though I did almost immediately find myself reaching for a monad library (cats seems good so far) :)  Haven&#x27;t felt the need to write my own macros yet, but certainly many of the libraries I&#x27;m using (compojure) make heavy use of them.<p>Too bad my day job is all Java, all the time :(  My continual requests to use Scala have been shot down over the last couple of years -- &quot;We want something maintainable, where am I going to find Scala devs when you leave?&quot;  So obviously Clojure isn&#x27;t going to fly :)