Why Clojure? It's slow and not type-safe. If you want something a little more dynamic than Java but without losing speed, did you check out Kotlin?
Re:Systems Languages: An Experience Report
by StreamBright on Thursday July 12, 2018 @10:22AM
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Slow??? Are you kidding?
These are exactly the reasons why JVM is the primary platform for us and Clojure/Java are the primary languages to use. If you compare languages by performance, library availability and developer popularity it is extremely hard to beat Java/JVM