I think people like to over-exaggerate the difficulty of learning Clojure. If you have one person on the team who is fluent in it, the rest of the team can pick

I think people like to over-exaggerate the difficulty of learning Clojure. If you have one person on the team who is fluent in it, the rest of the team can pick up enough of it to be productive in days. The place I work at used to be exclusively a java shop, we introduced Clojure for a project a year ago and everybody loved it. So, far we had co-ops learn it, contractors, and the whole team. I'm just not sure who these people who can't learn Clojure are exactly. It might be more difficult to read initially if you've only worked with one family of languages, but that doesn't make it more difficult to read inherently. In fact, there are many benefits to readability once you're familiar with the syntax. It's a lot more regular, there's less special cases than in most languages, and you can see the relations in your code visually, since you're seeing the same AST that the compiler sees.