Going back to something that's not REPL-driven takes some adjustment, but I try to find and focus on the advantages the other language has, instead of on what i

Going back to something that's not REPL-driven takes some adjustment, but I try to find and focus on the advantages the other language has, instead of on what it's missing. For example, when using OCaml (which incidentally does have a REPL, but I don't use it often), I get a lot of value from the type system and the module system. Even Java has advantages in terms of tooling, and from Java 8 on, you can write code using some Clojurish idioms with streams. Though for immutable data, you need something like Lombok + pcollections. JavaScript, on the other hand, really doesn't offer anything over Clojure, so I can see why you'd struggle going back to it. It's just a downgrade.