I actually rarely use Clojure's concurrency primitives. For me, it's Clojure's immutability, homoiconicity and sensible namespacing that I really like. Off top

I actually rarely use Clojure's concurrency primitives. For me, it's Clojure's immutability, homoiconicity and sensible namespacing that I really like. Off topic, I've noticed that comments on HN are being downvoted a lot more often than they were, even when those comments are entirely legitimate. It's getting to be somewhat problematic.