Clojure is the most token efficient of the major languages. It's a pleasure to work in. The sample code base that Claude knows skews toward higher quality code than the large volumes of middling JS or Python (this is not about the language but about what gets shared in the open for training data).
You want binaries... Babashka.
CLI... sure.
Access to the entire Java ecosystem... also yes.
The one other virtue is that when I use Clojure to demonstrate some feature, no one at work is tempted to deploy it as is until they rewrite it for Node.
Clojure is the most token efficient of the major languages. It's a pleasure to work in. The sample code base that Claude knows skews toward higher quality code than the large volumes of middling JS or Python (this is not about the language but about what gets shared in the open for training data).
You want binaries... Babashka.
CLI... sure.
Access to the entire Java ecosystem... also yes.
The one other virtue is that when I use Clojure to demonstrate some feature, no one at work is tempted to deploy it as is until they rewrite it for Node.