While I think it's clear Clojure and other functional languages are stronger overall than Ruby, Python, JS, and the like, the truth is that web development in t

While I think it's clear Clojure and other functional languages are stronger overall than Ruby, Python, JS, and the like, the truth is that web development in the wild ends up being a lot more about choice of libraries than choice of language. Clojure is getting there, but its web libraries are still immature compared to what you'll find in Rails, and I generally can't justify spending the extra time that implies. For apis and services, on the other hand, Clojure is fantastic. My preferred architecture these days is Rails for front-end, lightweight backend, and various utility tasks, and a Clojure api for computational tasks, parallelism, and heavy lifting. My point is that sometimes the best tool for the job isn't necessarily the best all-around tool. It's fine to use the stronger technology whenever you can justify it (why wouldn't you?), but if you put more focus on technology choice than product, you may end up with lots of beautifully engineered projects that never get finished.