Ruby is not a good language though. It's not consistent, it's not lexically scoped, it's slow and it's std library is immature. There are similar arguments agi

Ruby is not a good language though. It's not consistent, it's not lexically scoped, it's slow and it's std library is immature. There are similar arguments aginst Python, but less so. As far as strong benefits of clojure: concurrency, it's lisp, it has libraries, it interoperates with Java.