I'm glad this is back. A version of this existed in the ancient past and helped encourage me to try Clojure which ended up being by far the most impactful decision in my professional life. It went away for a while for reasons I'm unclear on.
I use Clojure nearly daily at my job and at home. Sometimes it's standard Clojure, sometimes it's the excellent Babashka flavor which I use as a make-like task runner and Zsh-like script replacement. It's not the only language I use of course, and Go is a strong second place most of the time especially if I need something compiled to a single binary. But Clojure is where I generally feel most at home thanks to the irreplaceable REPL based development flow which is more like a dialogue with my program than your typical write compile run loop.
Combine that with it running on the JVM and you have a wonderful set of tools to get things done in a pleasant way.
I strongly encourage anyone with even a passing interest in Lisp and functional programming to give it a try. If you're using VSCode there is the excellent Calva plugin to help you out.
I use Clojure nearly daily at my job and at home. Sometimes it's standard Clojure, sometimes it's the excellent Babashka flavor which I use as a make-like task runner and Zsh-like script replacement. It's not the only language I use of course, and Go is a strong second place most of the time especially if I need something compiled to a single binary. But Clojure is where I generally feel most at home thanks to the irreplaceable REPL based development flow which is more like a dialogue with my program than your typical write compile run loop.
Combine that with it running on the JVM and you have a wonderful set of tools to get things done in a pleasant way.
I strongly encourage anyone with even a passing interest in Lisp and functional programming to give it a try. If you're using VSCode there is the excellent Calva plugin to help you out.