>The main other benefit I commonly see from people using Clojure or ClojureScript is live development.

I'm still learning about Scheme/Lisp, but doesn't hot-loading have to do with the size of "compilation units?" Isn't a single s-expression treated as a compilation unit whereas in a language like Java, the compilation unit is an entire Class?

Rich Hickey touched on this in a comment here on HN (2nd paragraph): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2467809