[perrygeo]

I picked up Clojure recently after a 10 year hiatus. My early complaints were around tooling - a Lisp-specific IDE felt all but required to get the benefits of the REPL and structural editing. And leiningen, god how I despise that tool.

With clojure-lsp, deps.edn, and more REPL tooling (conjure in neovim in my case), the situation is better now. I find myself reaching for Clojure for almost everything these days - from scripting to data crunching to quick web apps to database work. Clojure is an amazing tool once you grok it - closest thing to a super-power we can get.

> working "with" my code, molding it like clay

This the best description. Clojure feels very fun/interactive but simultaneously feels rock solid for production work. There is no gap between "notebook" and "prod". Zero compromises. Most other languages pick one or the other (Python - interactive but plagued by runtime errors, Rust - rock solid but clunky to iterate and experiment)