I had the exact same experience with a project we started recently. We jumped from Clojure/Compojure to Erlang/WebMachine with much better success so far. I d

I had the exact same experience with a project we started recently. We jumped from Clojure/Compojure to Erlang/WebMachine with much better success so far. I did in Erlang in two days what Clojure took me two weeks with numerous false starts to accomplish, mostly because the libraries were so poorly documented or incomplete. I spent more time digging through code and trying to assemble a framework to build upon than I did writing useful business logic. I found the Erlang infrastructure to be well-structured and strongly documented, mostly because of it's maturity. What I surmise is that Clojure is just too young, and its web framework lacks a strong commercial force driving it. Rails has 37signals, Webmachine has Basho, Lift has sites like Twitter and Foursquare. Clojure needs something similar to push it forward. All arguments and emotions aside, I'd say if you're starting to build a new web site, and you're not considering Rails or Lift, you're doing yourself a major disservice. Like others have said, JRuby nicely avoids some of the issues discussed for scripting languages.