The lisp syntax was my original reason to accept Clojure. You might need a few days to get used to it, but it is far less than any other syntax, and it quickly falls into your muscle memory in a way no other syntax can. Within weeks you master a handful of basic parens manipulation that are all you need to edit and navigate code. That means that you are 100% focus on implementing your solution to a problem instead of switching between doing that and crafting your solution into an alien syntax, assisted by an ide