&gt; Why would you pick Lisp or Clojure over say Elixir, Scala, or even F#?<p>They are all great choices!<p>F# is an excellent choice if you are happy living within the .net ecosystem. I&#x27;d highly recommend it if you are a c# dev. Tooling is great. Ecosystem is really good etc. Performance is really good.<p>Elixir? Its a really good option for high concurrency apps. It&#x27;s based upon Erlang and has access to heavily battle tested libraries. Tooling and ecosystem not as good for many kinds of applications as the jvm&#x2F;clr.<p>Scala? Another good option somewhat limited by its complexity. I personally prefer F# and I think it has better tooling. Nevertheless it&#x27;s a great option for the jvm crowd.<p>Why did I choose clojure? Mainly for its good defaults, a community focused on simplicity, data, and composability, a great jvm AND JavaScript story, macros, amazing tooling, and ease of learning.