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The parts of Clojure required to write a config file are probably roughly the same size as a custom DSL though.

Maps and lists are gonna be maps and lists...

Except for Clojure's data model. You'll still need to understand what apostrophe ("'") does and what keyword (":foo") is.

You can do that in five minutes. You can easily spend days trying to understand some arcane, adhoc configuration syntax that someone came up with. And still get the non-trivial cases wrong.

It's a good thing that it's Clojure and not some freakish turing-complete XML-based configuration file.

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