[mikepurvis]

True, though I think part of this is also recognizing that the more the semantics diverge, the more potential upside there is.

Not that JavaScript-with-types isn't a compelling pitch for TypeScript— it totally is. But that's a benefit that is primarily geared toward scale and safety, whereas Clojure is a completely different kind of language from Java. Maybe I'm just arguing essentially the same point here, that Clojure is always going to be a niche, but the core of it is that if your problem domain demands using a Lisp, and you have other reasons to want to be on the JVM, then it's likely that the cost of having to pick up some Java is going to be well worth it.