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by slifin 2516 days ago
Clojure is the only language I know that does data orientated design, i.e. Gardern, Hiccup, HoneySQL

Clojure is the only language I know that has a library that does full-stack graphs, from server to client, always a graph until execution time (Fulcro)

Clojure is the only language I know that has a datalog based query language against an immutable time travelling database that allows you to write one query against your database and retrieve nested sets (Datomic)

There's a lot of breakthrough ideas in Clojure that don't spread beyond Clojure, but they flow into Clojure from other languages because Clojure is a parasitic language

Clojure could lower its barriers to entry with more "cool" landing pages, prettier documentation, the kinds of things that attract "new hip" developers

I myself gave up with it initially until I discovered Parinfer