I hardly think being a virtuoso programmer is something to shun. Not everyone has to do it but it's not a bad thing. Also, as the speed of processors has basica

I hardly think being a virtuoso programmer is something to shun. Not everyone has to do it but it's not a bad thing. Also, as the speed of processors has basically stopped but we get more and more cores, things like Clojure's atoms, STM, and core.async make it really easy to do parallel computations without the utter insanity that using mutexes or Futures or whatever leads to. Clojure definitely makes it way easier to write clearly correct multi-threaded code in very few lines of code. You would be shocked what you can get out of the box. So there is a lisp that targets exactly what you want: something for laymen to use to effectively get the job done correctly and way easier than the competition. I've seen FAANG engineers screw up simple locks etc. If Clojure can hand you tools to get that done then why wouldn't you be trying it (despite your aversion to parens).