It was mostly the tools. We couldn't even get Calva to run properly in VS Code on her computer (we just gave up, mysterious errors and none of the recommended f

It was mostly the tools. We couldn't even get Calva to run properly in VS Code on her computer (we just gave up, mysterious errors and none of the recommended fixes online helped). Plus she liked that Python has an "intuitive" feel, just looking at code it kind of makes sense, whereas Clojure looked crazy and meaningless unless you "knew". Which would have been mysterious and exciting for me, but was intimidating and dreadful for her.