You're talking like everyone abhorred Javascript before, and since it has gotten a few "modern" features, everyone (including many Clojuristas) rushed back to i

You're talking like everyone abhorred Javascript before, and since it has gotten a few "modern" features, everyone (including many Clojuristas) rushed back to it. "Niceties of Clojure" you're talking about have slowly started appearing in other languages as well, not only JS. However, those languages are still missing key ingredients that make Clojure such a nice tool. Javascript is still a very difficult language to work with. Arguably, it is even hard to rate the language as a production-ready PL. The hidden cost associated with building, maintaining, and scaling JS applications is immense. There are so many inconsistencies and oddities in the language - it is not even cute or funny anymore to talk about WATs or "bad parts" of it. It gives you a false sense of simplicity, it feels like an easy language to start writing apps with, but God, very soon, you realize how awful things are (in comparison). Clojure(script), on the other hand, is so much more practical. It only looks more difficult, but given enough patience, it brings you stability, consistency, predictability, and, most important - the incredible joy of building working software. Notably, the majority of Clojurists are seasoned, experienced, tired, grumpy software developers. After trying different options they've finally found something that more or less makes sense. People mistakenly characterize that as a "Stockholm syndrome." Which I assure you is not. I personally use Clojure because it simply makes sense. Once it stops making sense, I will move onto something else. Who knows, maybe Javascript will evolve into something better then. But I can honestly say: "Javascript today does not make more sense." It is not a mere opinion of someone with a cursory knowledge of JS, I've used it (and many other languages that transpile/compile into it) for many, many years.