> Why not just use Clojure?

I guess as a professional Python developer, it would take some time to get used to all the parentheses. I've used Emacs for 20+ years, but outside of elisp I've never been comfortable with s-exprs.

I had never heard of om.next. I think this is what you mean: https://github.com/omcljs/om ?? correct?

> And managing complexity is not something you can benchmark in toy projects - every single framework is virtually the same at such a small scale.

Well, looking at how much garbage was needed to implement todomvc in Backbone kept me from considering it any further :)