[robertfw]

> the runtime, the development tooling, and selection of libraries and other integrations is about as good as it gets

This is a great feature of Clojure, being able to access all of the benefits of the Java ecosystem and the zillions of hours invested into it.

There may not always be a ready-made Clojure wrapper over libraries, but the java interop tools are excellent and writing your own interface into a library is usually quite straightforward.