It has much more syntax than any other Lisp I know, and it seems alien even coming from Common Lisp. In addition to the usual (list) and 'quote and `backtick a

It has much more syntax than any other Lisp I know, and it seems alien even coming from Common Lisp. In addition to the usual (list) and 'quote and `backtick and :keyword and ;comment, it has [vector] and {map} and #{set} and #(function) and @deref and #"regex" and ^metadata and #?(:conditional) and ... (Yes, several of those are implemented as reader macros. I don't see how that would make them any easier to learn than the same feature implemented as "syntax".) That's not a knock against it. I think Clojure is the best general-purpose language today, but we've come a long way in the past few decades. Lisp is no longer a language whose implementation fits on a blackboard (and everyone extends it in their own way). We've discovered a bunch of common functionality that almost all programs need, and pushed it up into the stdlib and language.