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Nice writeup and a good summary/tour.

The biggest advantage of Clojure over more succinct Lisps is that the extra verbage and built-ins promote a larger shared base and patterns on how things should be done. This is less likely to turn each project into its own language. Clojure skills are much more likely to transfer between companies.

The other thing about being in the JVM ecosystem is that it promotes sharing so there's less reinventing the parts of the wheel that you need for 'this' project that's unsuitable for other use-cases.




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