Well, the idea of leveraging the power and pragmatism of the JVM using a nice functional language is certainly appealing, and the moments in which it does work

Well, the idea of leveraging the power and pragmatism of the JVM using a nice functional language is certainly appealing, and the moments in which it does work it's really nice. Not to mention the pragmatic and mostly idiot-proof approach to state and concurrency is awesome. I guess I don't mean exceptions encountered at runtime, btw. I mean more like syntax errors during development. The Clojure compiler does not yet provide useful error messages or other information like line numbers in most cases when you have a bizarre paren-balancing issue or something.