if you're a non-MS developer, you'd need to first install a proper OS on it of course. Long time MBP user, switched to XPS 5 years ago. Haven't looked back since.
I looked at Clojure back in 2010, and from from 2012 I've managed to work with it full time. Love it!
The only Java-esque thing you need to decipher are the potential stack traces. But that's becoming easier with each new release, and it's actually quite easy to find the Clojure-namespace (= file) and line number you need to focus on, just by scrolling through the usually not too long stack trace.
- Productivity. Bulding stuff in Clojure is not only joyful but also can give you real (not imaginary, not theoretical, but real, measurable) boost;
- Concise syntax. Less code - less bugs;
- FP. Immutability by default is something that once you get used to it, it is hard to imagine having to write code without it;
- REPL. I mean real REPL, not some kind of crippled "interactive shell". e.g.: Jupyter is interactive shell, Clojure (just like any other Lisp) has a "real" REPL;
If you do it right, you won't need to inspect/debug prod. But nothing stops you from enabling socket REPL, connect to it and try things there. Just like NASA fixed their failing spacecraft in 1998 during Deep Space 1 mission.
