I keep hearing this sentiment, moreso than I've ever seen for any other language. Once you "get into" Clojure, you're both A.) Extremely productive with it, and B.) in love with Clojure.
How does it hold up for those of us that really love static typing and compilers?
I love static typing. I really dislike almost every dynamic language I've ever worked with. But Clojure is currently my favorite language. I've done C#, F#, Go, JS, Ruby, Dart, C, C++, dabbled in Haskell, OCaml, purescript, D, Nim... (I like programming.) Anyway, once I dove into Clojure, I couldn't go back to any other language. I do wish it was more general purpose (not so slow to boot, had a decent native / non JVM, non JS target.)
the static typing part - yeah, you just have to try and let go. there is typed.clojure for gradual typing though last time i checked it was quite slow. clojure.spec is a great attempt at bringing some discipline and provides quite a bit more than your usual typing system can do, though not entirely on compilation level.
as for compiler part - you're in for a treat. clojure is a compiled language - everything compiles down to jvm bytecode. the surprise part is that due to homoiconicity you get a compiler that's happy to let you hook into particular pieces of your code and (since code is literally represented as usual clojure data structures - lists/maps/vectors/etc) modify it on the fly before compiling. you basically define `f(code) -> other_code` - the ultimate metaprogramming.
How does it hold up for those of us that really love static typing and compilers?