1. Rich Hickey's ideas, such as [[complexity|Simple Made Easy]], [Design in Practice](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c5QF2HjHLSE) and [Spec-ulation](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oyLBGkS5ICk) 2. Powerful Clojure core, something, I've been missing in languages like Javascript 3. REPL-connected editor - pure awesomeness! 4. The same language could be used [scripting](https://github.com/babashka/babashka), production backend, [frontend](https://github.com/weavejester/hiccup) code. No need to reach out to Python for some DevOps scripts or Javascript for frontend. 8. Strong respect on backwards compatibility. No breaking changes in a language that happened with Python 3 or Scala 3. 9. High confidence that if I'll need an obscure library, I could tap into JVM's established ecosystem and will probably find something reasonable. 10. Active and helpful community at [Clojurians Slack](https://clojurians.slack.com/). Some other things - needs some clarification: 12. [Functional Design in Clojure podcast](https://clojuredesign.club/) with Christoph and Nate 13. Open data systems (fixme: elaborate) 14. The same data structures used for data, json, html (and code) 15. Structured output, that seems to be [slowly getting traction outside of Clojure](https://blog.kellybrazil.com/2021/12/03/tips-on-adding-json-output-to-your-cli-app/) seems a standard in Clojure 16. Ergonomic and innovative tools, such as [Malli](https://github.com/metosin/malli/blob/master/docs/function-schemas.md) and [XTDB](https://xtdb.com/) 17. Regal: reuse logic parts and improve them, it's kind of fun to write, unit-test in isolation if needed, no need to think about escaping