I would urge you to go ahead and use Clojure here. A big part of the value proposition is access to the entire JVM and JavaScript ecosystems. Bindings will be

I would urge you to go ahead and use Clojure here. A big part of the value proposition is access to the entire JVM and JavaScript ecosystems. Bindings will be available for the more popular libraries, and if there aren't, well, Clojure is designed to make that easy. It might not be pretty, it might not be idiomatic, but you're never going to hit a wall where "oh, if only I was using a popular language, I'd be able to do $obscure-thing". $obscure-thing is available for the JVM.