[joe-user]

> 1. It's functional!

As someone who writes more Python than Clojure these days, Python's limited lambdas are a regular source of frustration. Additionally, Clojure's first-class data structures are sorely missed in Python.

> 2. REPL-driven development!

The huge drawback IMHO that rarely gets discussed is the ability to change modules in Python's interactive interpreter (Clojure's analog is the namespace). For example, in the context of a web app, adding a new view in some views module, then swapping to the routes module and adding the adding a new route to wire up the view. Additionally, there's no built-in way to connect to the interpreter, as manually typing in a REPL is not the usual flow. To me this makes Python's interpreter unusable for anything but toy examples.

> 3. Macros!

Clojure is less macro-dependent than other lisps, but in most projects I use, there are one or two that really help clean things up. If you look to other modern languages that have macros (for example, Rust), I think the same idea applies.