Python is easy to get started with and has syntax that's nice to look at, easy/nice almost always wins over better. So now the issue is many have to keep using Python because of the ecosystem not because they find the language good.

The top 3 programming languages - JS, Python & Java - are all pretty uninspiring. It's all about history and ecosystem unfortunately.

iLemming

> The top 3 programming languages - JS, Python & Java - are all pretty uninspiring.

And Clojure beautifully solves many pain points of Java and Javascript, and even C#. I haven't tried clj-python mentioned, but I hope someday soon, running Clojure code interoperable with Python in production becomes a reality.

The hosted nature of the language is a brilliant idea. Clojure eliminates many small annoyances I hate in other languages - syntactical, semantical, and operational.

I wish more programmers have given a heartfelt try to Clojure instead of whining that "Lisp is unreadable" and "the parentheses are awful".

cutler

Agreed - Clojure is the best programming experience I've encountered. For a Pythonic lisp there's also Hy (https://github.com/hylang/hy).