I admire Clojure, and Rich Hickey's deep experience and knowledge of languages that he brought to the table. Clojure bottomed out for my comparison.

Perhaps an expert could strike a better balance, but it struck me and my various agents that we'd be fighting the language to make it faster.

https://github.com/Syzygies/Compare

This has been the best grounded approach of introducing Lisp to the masses, myself included. Rich Hickey made a language that is the most well positioned in this new LLM era.

Clojure isn't known for performance.