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I'm not sure why you're contrasting Clojure and Java, but nowhere was I recommending using Java over Clojure (nor would I ever offer such a recommendation). Certainly there are much, much better choices for a statically typed language out there.

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People usually not just chose languages. The VM, libraries and dependency management all together are chose. Btw. this is why Rich started Clojure on the JVM. If you stay on JVM land I quite often hear that the developers do not want to try Clojure because of the lack of types (which refers to static typing in this context). Good luck implementing a Hadoop project in OCaml or Haskell.

It seems like you're jumping ahead to conclusions waay to quickly here.

Instead of that, it would be better to respond directly to the specific points the OP made, rather than move the argument to a bunch of new topics.

OP did not say anything about other languages, be it Java or otherwise. OP is just describing experience with closure.

In order to understand clojure better, it would be good to not shut out feedback.

This is exactly the point, you can't just chose languages because of type systems there is a lot more to these decisions. OP has an experience with Clojure (which has closures) but these experiences are do not exists in the vacuum, there are tradeoffs that you take with every language.

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