...but I mean, even if we accept that the things you say about clojurescript are true (and I don't agree that they are, but even if I did), the point I'm making is that it doesnt stand out from the crowd in terms of features.
Nothing you've described is something that would be missed particularly using say, typescript, webpack and npm.
No, it's really not.
Have you tried other ecosystems? You should. If clojure is the best tooling you've ever used, look around, there's a wide world out there.
Heck, even the article linked above from lambdaisland lists tooling as one of the issues clojure suffers with.
> I mean, what are the options?
Haxe. Dart. Typescript. Elm. Scala. LivesSript. ES6. CoffeeScript. Flow. PureScript. ...
There must be what, 50 odd listed on https://github.com/jashkenas/coffeescript/wiki/List-of-langu...
...but I mean, even if we accept that the things you say about clojurescript are true (and I don't agree that they are, but even if I did), the point I'm making is that it doesnt stand out from the crowd in terms of features.
Nothing you've described is something that would be missed particularly using say, typescript, webpack and npm.