[blario]

Why Clojure? What makes it better than anything from the huge range of choice developers already have?

[moomin]

Very quickly: Simplicity, Speed, Power.

Simplicity: it's easier to reason about a Clojure program. Speed: Idiomatic Clojure tends to be as fast as Java when it matters. Power: If an abstraction you need isn't present, you can write your own. Code reuse is insanely high.