> Um, why exactly would you use something like Clojure if you're not comfortable building up your own particular set of libraries that you like for your project

> Um, why exactly would you use something like Clojure if you're not comfortable building up your own particular set of libraries that you like for your project? I decided upon Clojure as I think it meets the needs of my project well, which is basically an expert system. I need to consume a number of domain specific java libraries, and the native support for logic programming with core.logic and datalog is a big win. Clojure certainly wasn't the easiest choice - I would be much further ahead if I started with Ruby. > Clojure to me seems like a language culture that would likely tend towards smaller libraries that do specific things than something with batteries included and such like Rails. I should clarify that I think Clojure's favouring of smaller composable libraries is ultimately a better approach than the monolithic framework. It is much more difficult to get to a point where you're productive however.