Yeah this was basically also my conclusion of the article. If you really want to do clojure(/script) no language but clojure will give you that experience. It

Yeah this was basically also my conclusion of the article. If you really want to do clojure(/script) no language but clojure will give you that experience. It doesn't make functional programming in javascript an anti-pattern just because it does not become clojure. That's much like saying that you can't do functional programming in clojure because there are no monads and proper static type checking.