The work is funded by a Clojure community group (and a Clojure-using company), and Tonsky has written a bunch of awesome other Clojure (see DataScript[1]). So

The work is funded by a Clojure community group (and a Clojure-using company), and Tonsky has written a bunch of awesome other Clojure (see DataScript[1]). So it seems as though the decision to use Clojure was not made for technical reasons, but it's not exactly arbitrary. [1] https://github.com/tonsky/datascript https://github.com/tonsky/datascript