> you might prefer Java over Clojure

There are good, explainable reasons why people hate Java and Javascript. Fundamentally, one can argue that they are very nice and solid languages and all those complains aren't warranted. On the other hand if you look at them differently and treat them as low-level, sorta "assembly" languages for their respective platforms, then probably you would find out that Clojure is an amazing tool, because it can perfectly be hosted on both of them.

And given all the good design decisions that went into Clojure, one might argue that it's almost always better to choose Clojure instead of Java.