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Excellent breakdown.

This is an important point about Clojure - the culture seems to be leaning towards multiple small libraries, rather than whole frameworks or packages.

Which is actually kind of neat, since a properly written Clojure library is much more composeable than libraries in most other languages.

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Isn't this sort of the same philosophy as the way Lisps are built? It seems like having proper namespacing and a overall functional style lend themselves to smaller, more self-contained libraries.

Similarly there isn't as much of a need to have a monolithic stack like Ruby has, because Ruby's style tends to step on other's work a bit leading to preferring a all-in-one style for reliability.

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