The part about how so much of web application development is just translating data from one format into another, and how objects just get in the way of that process, really struck home with me. With Google's key value store mapping directly to Clojure structs, which are then handed off to the HTML generation code or converted into JSON, it's clear that including a step to map to objects somewhere in there is totally superfluous. Which is exactly what I find in developing web applications in Java on a daily basis.
