I'm starting to get into Clojure from Python as well. Thanks for this link.<p>I like how Flightcaster separates their webfrontend tech with the mapreduce backend. So I probably won't make a full switch. Wonder how many other pythonistas are doing the same.
I do find the appeal of Clojure quite alluring (I've long had a weakness for Lisp-based languages), but I'm not so keen on having to deal with the Java platform as it's not really to my taste.<p>Not really wanting to deal either with the Java class libraries or all the XML that seems to proliferate in the Java world.
I looked at the Clojure code and I find it's so ugly compared to Python, Java, or C#. I don't know why would anyone considered that a contender for writing code in the long run. I know the three languages mentioned above and I find Python is the most easy to read and code. Code readability is one of the most important criteria for me.