> If you've chosen a stack that's too esoteric then this will be a huge blocker to making any real progress.

Clojure is... esoteric now? I would understand if we were talking about, I don't know, INTERCAL. But Clojure? Is Scala 'esoteric' too?

> Python is a great language but there are no devs available where I live.

Ah, I see. Yeah, by that measure Clojure will be esoteric indeed. Python developers being rare is very surprising.