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I totally agree that it depends on domain, but I think that's part of the point -- making these comparisons, i.e. Clojure vs Haskell in the abstract aren't particularly interesting, as it seems obvious that no general purpose language is perfectly general for every purpose.

It runs on the Java runtime and interops seamlessly with Java which are two big factors in its favor.

> Haskell is certainly more mature (~30 years) and has a lot more tutorials and literature.

and yet, still, nobody outside the gated community has any idea wtf a monad is. :(

I was surprised to see Haskell in widespread use at several large enterprise companies in Singapore.

Yes 40+ fulltime Haskell devs in London and Singapore at Standard Chartered, with many other users writing Haskell.

Many universities outside of the US teach functional programming and Haskell. The community is open, international and a healthy mix between industry and academia.