[jwr]

I am very happy to see this. Clojure is being used in more and more applications and seems to be quite popular in larger-scale data analytics applications, where many other solutions struggle.

It is particularly strong when you want to build a data processing/analysis pipeline for moderate amounts of data (say, below a TB). With the fantastic built-in concurrency support, small external tools (core.async parallel pipelines and perhaps aphyr/tesser for parallel reducers) and the performance of the JVM, you can crunch through these amounts of data on a laptop, without involving anything bigger like hadoop. Saves time and makes for good consulting margins (I speak from experience).

It also happens to be the language which I use to develop fairly large applications, so I guess you could call me biased :-)