> optional static typing https://github.com/clojure/core.typed https://github.com/clojure/core.typed > multimethods http://clojure.org/multimethods http://cl

> optional static typing https://github.com/clojure/core.typed https://github.com/clojure/core.typed > multimethods http://clojure.org/multimethods http://clojure.org/multimethods - also, arguably better for many use cases: http://clojure.org/protocols http://clojure.org/protocols > native and efficient executables Clojure performs much better than popular web development language implementations like Python, Ruby or Node.js. See http://www.techempower.com/benchmarks/ http://www.techempower.com/benchmarks/ People have found it performant on harder problems: http://clojurefun.wordpress.com/2013/03/07/achieving-awesome-numerical-performance-in-clojure/ http://clojurefun.wordpress.com/2013/03/07/achieving-awesome... And it's possible to produce executables that depend only on the JVM, which is just as easy as fully-native for deployment. I grant you the one about the Common Lisp condition system. I wasn't familiar, but reading about it (http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?CommonLispConditionSystem http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?CommonLispConditionSystem), it does look intriguing. Apparently something inspired by it is available as a Clojure library, but the last commit was 10 months ago, and I hadn't heard of it till now: https://github.com/scgilardi/slingshot https://github.com/scgilardi/slingshot