Writing Go is less fun but the language has far better tooling, dead simple deployment, lower memory usage, generally higher performance, and is easier to onboa

Writing Go is less fun but the language has far better tooling, dead simple deployment, lower memory usage, generally higher performance, and is easier to onboard new developers. Also I find it way easier to read old projects after time away. You can get incredible mileage out of Go using just the stdlib, built in tools, and the pure go port of SQLite. With Clojure it feels like I have to stitch a million random libraries together to get anywhere. Writing Clojure is delightful but the ecosystem and tooling pale in comparison, and at the end of the day I think that’s what matters. If Clojure had great built-in tooling, better error messages (and maybe some SBCL-esque type checking features), and if Datomic was open source and less rough around the edges, I think the language would have been far more successful.