I think you're taking a tunnel vision view of the language. A lot of languages have a lot of features, but Clojure has just the right set of features all harmon

I think you're taking a tunnel vision view of the language. A lot of languages have a lot of features, but Clojure has just the right set of features all harmonized perfectly together, and almost no bad ones. So it's about how it all comes together. The secret to this comes down to the Clojure mindset. And where I agree with you is your last statement, Rich Hickey helped push this mindset to other languages, and I'm seeing some of it slowly ramp up in other languages as well. Which is great, but it never comes together as nicely, and who knows where it's going as well.