I wrote an answer to this question on Quora a while ago: https://www.quora.com/Clojure/Why-would-someone-learn-Clojure/answer/Leo-Polovets?share=1 https://www.q

I wrote an answer to this question on Quora a while ago: https://www.quora.com/Clojure/Why-would-someone-learn-Clojure/answer/Leo-Polovets?share=1 https://www.quora.com/Clojure/Why-would-someone-learn-Clojur... I think the answer is interesting because it's not purely mine, but instead summarizes a poll of ~5 strong engineers at my previous company. Two years later, I still think most of these bullet points hold, though I could also add a few more advantages and a few disadvantages of using Clojure.