I hear this a lot from the clojure community... but I think it's a missed attempt to pivot off the JVM and have clojure be useful for more people on a more popular platform.
Missed?
Yes.
Pick a thing.
Be excellent at it.
What is clojurescript excellent at?
Its a nice language, with not very nice tooling, that is hard to maintain and significantly different from the existing javascript code base you already have, with poor interop to the existing js ecosystem (it is poor, compared to some other compile to js languages).
On the JVM, java sucks, but your choices are limited; what, maybe groovy, kotlin, scale, clojure?
Clojure has pride of place as the best dynamic language in that space.
For javascript, that crowd of alternatives is so much larger, clojurescript needs to actually be good to stand out amongst all the others.
...and I don't think it really does.
The people who use it seem to just like it as a language; and I get that, that's a thing.
...but aesthetics are personal preference and its difficult to ague they make a compelling use case.
Missed?
Yes.
Pick a thing.
Be excellent at it.
What is clojurescript excellent at?
Its a nice language, with not very nice tooling, that is hard to maintain and significantly different from the existing javascript code base you already have, with poor interop to the existing js ecosystem (it is poor, compared to some other compile to js languages).
On the JVM, java sucks, but your choices are limited; what, maybe groovy, kotlin, scale, clojure?
Clojure has pride of place as the best dynamic language in that space.
For javascript, that crowd of alternatives is so much larger, clojurescript needs to actually be good to stand out amongst all the others.
...and I don't think it really does.
The people who use it seem to just like it as a language; and I get that, that's a thing.
...but aesthetics are personal preference and its difficult to ague they make a compelling use case.