> Clojure is also ideal for a startup, where a couple of competent Clojure programmers can write a complex application that would took a huge team of developers in other languages years of work.

There is a saying "if something sounds too good to be true, it probably is".

I wonder how many other languages did the author try to know that clojure is the reason for his success?

That being said, I really enjoy writing clojure and I absolutely love the interactive style of development. I hope more devs would try it so that it would get more traction in mainstream development.