On: Wisp: a homoiconic JS dialect with Clojure syntax,...

[chongli]

Those are 3 distinct types in Clojure; unfortunately they have no equivalents in JavaScript, thus they become strings.

[dhamidi → chongli]

To my knowledge, keywords are actually functions in Clojure, which do have an equivalent in JS. "Looks more like Clojure" seems like a good enough reason to me.

[i_s → dhamidi]

Keywords implement many interfaces, function (IFn) being one of them. See this line in the clojure source code:

  public class Keyword implements IFn, Comparable, Named, Serializable, IHashEq 

https://github.com/clojure/clojure/blob/master/src/jvm/cloju...

[adrusi → dhamidi]

They can be used as functions, but I think they're implemented differently for optimization. Could be wrong.