[nforgerit]

It might be me but "expressive syntax" does not automatically translate to any metric of productivity or "fun". Especially not in a job, where we put most of our work time into reading, researching, searching, conception and discussions. Only a fraction of my work time consists of "actually typing in some form of syntax".

I for one appreciate simplicity and would prefer Clojure anytime over Scala. The further comes with barely any syntax, has a couple of quick-to-grep concepts and once you trained your brain to read it and your editor to juggle the parens it is a lot of fun. The latter looks very nice and casual in the beginning but to me feels like a rabbit hole of complex concepts that were always heavier than the domain I was using it for. YMMV.

Tho civet code examples look nice I'm afraid it adds much more complexity than needed, both the concepts you have to keep in your brain's working memory and the whole TS toolchain which is already kind of horrible these days.