> (which is needed regularly in Clojure cause it's so slow) Clojure is not "so" slow - it's built expertly on top of the world's most advanced virtual machine.

> (which is needed regularly in Clojure cause it's so slow) Clojure is not "so" slow - it's built expertly on top of the world's most advanced virtual machine. Languages like PHP, Ruby, Python tend to lack a default VM that features GC or multithreading of such caliber.