TLDR: He hated the Java part of Clojure
I spent a lot of time in jvm land though, a few years of nights and weekends, but I finally learned that it wasn’t for me.
I’m a C (or rust or llvm or what have you, wasm?) person, not a jvm person.
clojure still relies on the jvm though, for repl things.
sci and babashka were interesting, but at that point I had already moved on to janet
Again, this is just my preference. YMMYV
There are a few projects that try todo this like this one: https://github.com/mattn/golisp
But it seems abandoned.
I've done a runtime lisp, but it felt like programming a lisp isolated from everything that made Go, well, Go. I've done a simple lisp to generate Go AST to do codegen pre-1.18, but that's not a complete program.
I haven't found the place yet that feels quite like Clojure.
Any good HTTP/JSON/Crawler examples or libraries ?
json encoder/decoder - https://github.com/janet-lang/json
Not aware of any HTML parsers/traverses (if that's what you mean with "Crawler") but interfacing with C libraries is easy so grab any C library you'd like for that task.