Engineering a platform or product is seldom a pretty business. Ask the Yesod folks. It's only recently that anything like Conduits with Conduit's performance is

Engineering a platform or product is seldom a pretty business. Ask the Yesod folks. It's only recently that anything like Conduits with Conduit's performance is finally finding "good" and well-researched alternatives. Not that your complaint is incorrect, it's just sort of difficult to actually use this as the basis for an argument against Clojure because everyone has already made their peace with this. It is not a "pretty" lisp; it's a natural response to the question, "How can I keep working with the JVM and leverage JVM libraries without devolving into the 1990's Taligent style verbosity that is modern Java?"