Not sure about the speed criticism. Usually it’s memory usage by the JVM that’s a turn off. Out of the other languages you mentioned Clojure is for sure slower

Not sure about the speed criticism. Usually it’s memory usage by the JVM that’s a turn off. Out of the other languages you mentioned Clojure is for sure slower but if you’re working with that or another JVM language like Kotlin you’re so happy to not be writing Java you don’t care about the other issues. I often say I wish I learned Java first so I did not know any better. It’s generally pretty unpleasant compared to most other languages I’m used to.