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Clojure is such a joy to use. I get the maturity of the Java ecosystem and the immutability, functional style, and concision of a lisp. If performance really matters, and Clojure does perform well, you can always dive into stuff with all the Java tooling and interop is extremely easy. I really wish more people picked it up.

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I feel no desire to use dynamic typing again, as nice as Clojure might otherwise be. While Kotlin is not strictly immutable, it is much better in this regard than Java. Collections are immutable by default in Kotlin (or more precisely you get an immutable view defined by the respective interface) and that is quite useful in practice.

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