What makes you specifically mention fast performance? I wasn't aware that this was the most important selling point of Clojure. What kool aid is it that you wo

What makes you specifically mention fast performance? I wasn't aware that this was the most important selling point of Clojure. What kool aid is it that you won't drink this time? For me, Clojure is great because it allows you to build powerful abstractions and has some interesting concurrency constructs, while running on the JVM and making it easy to interoperate with Java code. Of course, being a Lisp, it uses Lisp syntax.