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You're the first person I've seen that is vocal about having a truly bad experience with Clojure. Even from other people who prefer strongly typed language, I've mostly seen them expressing it as "not their taste", rather than actively dislike it. Do you mind sharing your experience and what was wrong with Clojure? You put js as an alternative, but in term of typing, js is borderline one of the worse type system out there.


Not as an alternative, but as similarly unsafe. It's funny to see how all the Clojure advocates bash Javascript...




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