Out of the box Clojure gives you: - Real immutability - Persistent data structures with structural sharing - A real Lisp REPL not a Python console - 650 bui

Out of the box Clojure gives you: - Real immutability - Persistent data structures with structural sharing - A real Lisp REPL not a Python console - 650 builtins to wrangle data in ways yo never imagined possible - The JVM and JS platforms - Rich Hickey That's a pretty good deal I think. By contrast Python has crippled single statement lambdas, late binding footguns and weird scoping. No contest. Ruby is much better at what Python tries to be as it wasn't designed by a BDFL who dislikes functional programming. Python's popularity is the result of Google's adoption and a marketing exercise in academia. For quality of design Python ranks near the bottom.