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by flavio81 2783 days ago
> I was very disappointed in Clojure's debugging/interactive development story (and I've heard that from a lot of others). It feels more like using a typical scripting language compared to the traditional Lisp/Smalltalk experience

Common Lisp user here. I was also disappointed in the same way when trying Clojure.

Other minor things i didn't like was the noisy [] on the syntax, and the fact that for practical purposes you're fully tied to the JVM and the java runtime libs.

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>>for practical purposes you're fully tied to the JVM and the java runtime libs.

That's more like a positive thing about Clojure. Java inter-op and targeting the JVM gives Clojure a great chance of adoption at large enterprises.

These days no one really has a issue installing jars on a production machine.