[mr_luc]

So why use Go instead of node.js? You can probably take that reasoning and substitute "Go" for "Clojure", and "node.js" for "Go".

Go people would probably object that the things that Go adds, and that node.js lacks, aren't just window dressing -- sure, there are situations where a node.js-style fast event loop that avoids blocking operations is all you need, but there are also situations where you want something more like real threads, because the problem demands it.

I'm a lisper but not a Clojure expert - but I'd assume that Clojure people don't consider the existence of e.g. Actors to be "feature bloat". My impression is more that the difficult/special concurrency-enabling feature of the language is STM, and language-level support for different concurrency paradigms, implemented on top of STM, are probably low-hanging fruit once you've got it.

[pjmlp]

Static typing and availability of AOT compilation?