I have a similar background and in Oct 2018, I started spending lots of time learning with that exact book! I first learned Emacs (covered in the book) and it r

I have a similar background and in Oct 2018, I started spending lots of time learning with that exact book! I first learned Emacs (covered in the book) and it really wasn’t bad at all. I did some tiny fun projects in Clojure, and some exercises on 4clojure. After a couple of months I understood the language and could easily make sense of most of what I saw except core.logic which hardly comes up in practice. Even Heroku has first class support of Clojure, so deployment is trivial for MVPs. You likely won’t have an issue learning the language, but from my experience, making full stack apps in Clojure is a bit more challenging (compared to .NET and Flask). It’s challenging to figure out what libraries to use for your app, since frameworks are hardly complete and usually outdated in Clojure.