Interesting rant about Scala's issues

[Bienlein]

On Thursday, 3 April 2014 at 11:03:56 UTC, bachmeier wrote:
> What about Clojure? It is getting real world use. The recent
> release makes it easier to call Clojure from Java. Example:
>
> IFn map = Clojure.var("clojure.core", "map");
> IFn inc = Clojure.var("clojure.core", "inc");
> map.invoke(inc, Clojure.read("[1 2 3]"));
>
> is all you need to use Clojure's map from a Java program.
>
> https://github.com/clojure/clojure/blob/master/changes.md

Yeah, you might be right. I was maybe too much focused on 
imperative/OO languages. It is now especially easy to call 
Closure from Kotlin. Have a look: 
http://blog.jetbrains.com/kotlin/2014/04/kotlin-gets-support-for-s-expressions