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> ClojureScript is just as leaky as Clojure

By leaky, I assume you are refering to the interop with the host platform. Overall, this seems like a benefit, simply for having access to many more libraries than would otherwise exist in Clojure(script).

> Clojure brings all the XML pain of Java dependencies

Do you mean pom.xml?

> better VM

The JVM seems extremely powerful with regards to performance and memory management, with 20+ years of backwards compatibility (mostly), and improvements still being made with GC and JIT.