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Just expanding on the parent to your comment a little bit more... Clojure and Haskell are two almost completely different beasts. Thanks to clojure's simplicit

Just expanding on the parent to your comment a little bit more... Clojure and Haskell are two almost completely different beasts. Thanks to clojure's simplicity (as a dialect of lisp), it could BECOME haskell if you wrote the DSLs for it, but the reverse is much harder, I would think. Eta is not looking to convince clojurists to use haskell on the jvm instead of clojure, it's (most likely, I don't maintain the project) to enable those who want to use haskell but want to also use the JVM to do so. Regardless of whether Haskell is a better choice for your project or clojure is, the eta team (or any other team for that matter) is under no obligation to find that out for you, or even to make your search any easier. That's your job -- if clojure still fits your needs and doesn't have any glaring issues, absolutely use it.

Buttons840 10y ago
Are you saying that writing Haskell in Lisp is easier than writing Lisp in Haskell? Or did I get that backwards?
- hardwaresofton 10y ago
  Yes -- to clarify, it I'm saying that it would be easier (for me at least) to write with haskell's semantics/paradigm than it would be for me to write with lisp's semantics/paradigm in haskell. I think the statement is almost axiomatic. Lisp is multi-paradigm, by way of simplicity/choices not being made for you. Haskell is decidedly functional (which is something I love about it). Making a more specific thing into a less specific thing (while possible in this case), seems like a more difficult task than molding the clay that is LISP to look like haskell.