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These days I personally am just fine writing in modern JS. Destructuring, lambda syntax, and object literals almost make it a tie with Clojure's terse syntax.

• _sdegutis 9y ago
  With how many libs I've been able to find on NPM, I don't miss the libraries of the JVM really. Most (if not all) of them have been rewritten by now. And the speed and concurrency of the JVM itself is great when you want to scale vertically, but there are plenty of decent ways these days to scale horizontally instead. The only thing I kind of miss is REPL-driven development, but for the most part that's only really a crutch for Clojure's slow launch, and it's just as easy in Node to write some experimental code at the top of your main file with an early exit, auto-reloading it using nodemon, and outputting whatever you're trying to see. You lose the ability to have live objects, but 99% of the time that's a non-issue.