I agree with the article, but would also like to mention that it has a very steep learning curve. 1.5 months after my first line of Swift I had my app in the a

I agree with the article, but would also like to mention that it has a very steep learning curve. 1.5 months after my first line of Swift I had my app in the app store (granted I was proficient in Objective-C). 2 years since I've started learning Clojure and a couple of months since I'm working professionally with it and I'm still quite shaky. Luckily, it's not difficult to begin - you can start hacking small programs in a couple of days, but when it comes to building large applications, that's when it becomes a high-level art form (just one of the many possible metaphors :) ). Quite similar to C++ in this respect - easy to pick up, hard to master. It humbled me and made me cry many times. But as with everything, if you don't give up, you level-up. As far as the experience goes, it gives you this 'overview' experience of programming - you can mimic almost any feature from other languages and you have access to all the libs for the JVM (including C/C++ libs through JNI) plus all the javascript libs. So in terms of libraries you can use, I dare say that Clojure(script) is the language which can access the most libs out there. So yeah, definitely a powerful language and a powerful tool which you can go very deep into, albeit a bit tough to learn.