From my personal experience, no. I like Clojure. I like the fact that everything is map or list or set. I like that with Specter Clojure becomes really useable.

From my personal experience, no. I like Clojure. I like the fact that everything is map or list or set. I like that with Specter Clojure becomes really useable. What I don't like is that tooling is either missing, terrible at battery life on Mac or incredibly complex to learn. Intellij sucks battery because it locks the high performance graphics card on. Counterclockwise is nice, but it's got a background task that spins every minute or so. That drains the battery too. Atom drains the battery because it's Chrome-based. Emacs is...Emacs. Could be nice, but holy crap the learning curve. Finally, there doesn't appear to be a great DI library like Spring. Component works, but its naming and interaction flows are confusing. I do like Clojure. I've got a few project for Clojure around ArangoDB. After all of this, I'm switching back to Eclipse (Spring STS), Java 1.8 and Spring. For all the language issues, I can knock the project out in a few months. I can probably train my wife quickly in it too.