Depending who you ask, Clojure provides some benefits over other Lisps unrelated to its ability to leverage the JVM. Some of those are: - Default efficien

Depending who you ask, Clojure provides some benefits over other Lisps unrelated to its ability to leverage the JVM. Some of those are: - Default efficient immutable collections - Good support for safe concurrency and multi-core programming - Extended homoiconicity to include maps, vectors and sets as well as lists - Convenient short lambda syntax - Extensible data representation - Distinguishes between nil and empty list - Distinguishes between keywords and symbols - Real boolean types - Function arity overloading - Well thought out abstractions and set of standard functions: collections are abstractions, lazy sequences, transducers, relational set manipulation, etc. - Only two kinds of equality: by value or by reference, with the former being the default - Is a lisp-1 like Scheme, but also with more batteries included like Common Lisp - Slightly different visual appearance in its syntax, due to support for literal maps and vectors as well as lists, which can make things easier to visually parse.