I’ve been programming lisp for a few years now (Scheme then CL) and write Clojure daily for my current job. I initially described Clojure as: the worst dialect of lisp I’ve used, but the only one I’ve been paid to write in. It’s grown a lot on me over the past few months, but I still end up missing CL every now and then at work (I think I mainly like CL’s Slime more than Clojure’s Cider).

What were some unsettling points about the Clojure project you worked on? One thing I’ve noticed is that since Clojure is a relatively new language, a lot of newer lispers will start off with it, and I imagine that companies are more likely to try Clojure than CL as a first lisp. Consequently, the Clojure code you run into on the job may be of lower quality.