that was literally my story as well until i tried Clojure. i think convenient data literals is the top reason i could stick with it and properly learn a LISP. i

that was literally my story as well until i tried Clojure. i think convenient data literals is the top reason i could stick with it and properly learn a LISP. immutable to the core, nice concurrency primitives, trivial access to the whole java ecosystem - those are just cherries on top. try using Atom with Parinfer plugin. i vehemently disagree with people trying to push emacs on Clojure/LISP newcomers. having to learn a possibly completely alien editor to be effective programming LISP is another big thing that pushes people away.