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by moomin 5222 days ago
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.