Thanks to everyone in this server + the Clojure core team. I am an absolute beginner, but I've rewrote some legacy Python 2 code in Clojure and our new backend is many times faster than the legacy system.
@windlejacob12 Sounds like one for the "community stories" page! https://clojure.org/community/community_stories
just wait until someone comes to maintain your code 6 months from now and is able to reason about it easily ))
another kind of joy