I second that. Clojure is really a great joy to use. It may take a while to shift into the mindset, especially for someone new to Lisp, but after a while it's an absolute delight.
A great degree of occasional criticism of Clojure typically comes from brief exposure - either from not using structural editing idioms, misunderstanding REPL-driven workflows, or confusion around "the type system". Of course, Clojure being dynamically/strongly typed, doesn't really have a type system in the traditional sense, yet it has mechanisms that provide type-like guarantees, and from pragmatic point-of-view those instruments are incredibly robust.
A great degree of occasional criticism of Clojure typically comes from brief exposure - either from not using structural editing idioms, misunderstanding REPL-driven workflows, or confusion around "the type system". Of course, Clojure being dynamically/strongly typed, doesn't really have a type system in the traditional sense, yet it has mechanisms that provide type-like guarantees, and from pragmatic point-of-view those instruments are incredibly robust.