People have been saying Clojure is dying for years, but there's plenty of people using it to great effect. I'm more productive in Clojure than in any other language, and I have access to a wide array of Clojure and JVM libraries. The power it gives me lets me spit out solutions to problems much faster than less expressive languages like Python. Perhaps you haven't really programmed enough in Lisps to really get the point of them.