Different strokes for different folks I guess. I would take it over Haskell and Scala any day. Haven't tried F# or OCaml so can't comment. > its dynamic-ness m

Different strokes for different folks I guess. I would take it over Haskell and Scala any day. Haven't tried F# or OCaml so can't comment. > its dynamic-ness makes it not suited to large projects IMO I'm really curious about this. I work on large Clojure projects, and it works quite well. We have low defects, and quick pace of change. Maybe we're just lucky, touch wood. > The currently-accepted attempt at a non-type-system-type-system 'spec' is not well thought out If you thought of it as a type system, than it's normal you think it's not well thought out. It isn't trying to be a type system at all. It's a contract system. The goal is validation, generative testing, formal spec, parsing, etc. Not type checking. Even given a strong static type system I would still use it. > The repl is fine but can be a crutch -- see startup time Heard about this from some people, but dunno, it never affected me. I start my REPL at most once a day, often less then that. So waiting a few seconds doesn't bother me. > Clojure still hasn't really found a niche That's true. That said, it is great at everything. While it didn't find itself a popular sub-domain to dominate, I now choose it for everything. There's barely anything it can't handle well. I reach for it for everything nowadays. That's actually something I really like about it, it has huge reach.