Very true. Also, while I agree that Clojure is solid for web server stuff, it wouldn’t be my first choice in the context of general purpose web apps or APIs.
The “do-it-yourself” mentality that is at the core of Clojure dev culture results in a less rich library ecosystem. Not only you often end up writing custom code for a generic feature, the rest of your team cannot reuse their past experience but has to learn your custom code and maintain it.
What? If anything, we have a "do-it-right" mentality :) The Clojure library ecosystem is very rich with new libraries coming out every week. We also reuse the rich Java library ecosystem to a large degree.
I'm with Clojure for 10+ years and I don't "often end up writing custom code for a generic feature". Its quite the opposite. Clojure is a language that has hundreds of extremely well composing generic functions built in, that operate on a very rich set of first class immutable datastructures.
Whatever Clojure you base your impressions on is very different from the one I know and use...
The “do-it-yourself” mentality that is at the core of Clojure dev culture results in a less rich library ecosystem. Not only you often end up writing custom code for a generic feature, the rest of your team cannot reuse their past experience but has to learn your custom code and maintain it.