I may be mischaracterizing here, but weavejester is known for ubiquitous developer-facing stuff such as compojure and hiccup while swannodette is by far the #1

I may be mischaracterizing here, but weavejester is known for ubiquitous developer-facing stuff such as compojure and hiccup while swannodette is by far the #1 contributor to the ClojureScript compiler. They're both great contributors to the community, but I wouldn't fault David Nolen for compiler code being less intuitive than framework code.