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Clojure is the most fun programming I've had in years.

It takes quite some time to really kick in (more than one or two pet projects, rather than couple of "hello world"-style lines it took for Ruby), but once it does… walking up and down the ladder of abstraction never felt so good.

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I think the path to "Hello world!" ends up being a bit longer and the buy-in cost a little higher since Clojure isn't really a fitting language for scripts. As soon as you've got an application that requires more than a single namespace, though, the languages' strengths start to come into play.

If Clojure was better suited for scripting, that would amazing. It's one area the language could be a bit better about handling. Setting a quick leiningen project to create a "Hello world!" certainly works and is relatively quick, but that includes a lot of leiningen baggage too.

I recommend taking a look at Pixie https://github.com/pixie-lang/pixie

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