Some months ago I decided to learn a new language. In the end, I had to choose between Scala and Clojure and I chose Scala because Clojure was too alien to me. I was looking for a language to write web apps and Scala, with Play 2, seemed like a natural choice to me. The fact that Clojure had many little libraries rather than a few big frameworks didn't help. Then I discovered Single Page Applications (SPAs) and looked into full Javascript SPAs but soon realized that Javascript is an awkward language that should be put out of its misery. I finally decided to give Dart a try because Coffeescript and Typescript were too close to Javascript. Unfortunately Dart didn't impress me. As a language it's not very interesting, especially after having programmed in Scala for a while. Moreover, I was disappointed that it didn't (and still doesn't) solve the callback hell problem. It's true that futures and promises alleviate the problem but that's not enough, IMHO. I think the best solution is the one proposed by Go and I was really impressed when I found out that Clojure managed to implement goroutines by leveraging the power of macros. That single fact is what made me reconsider Clojure. Then I found out about Clojurescript and I was sold. I'm also very impressed by how active Clojure's community is. In this last year things have changed so much! I'm looking forward to trying Pedestal, Om and Hoplon. I think that clojure.async and Clojurescript are the two biggest selling points for Clojure. I hope Clojurescript keeps improving and gets the attention it deserves.
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