as more of the javascript ecosystem moves in the direction of "just add our compiler extension so you can load up .foo files!" (instead of shipping a real API) ditching google closure is becoming imperative

this has made it outright impossible to use a lot of modern JS libraries with cljs

Clickbait title! 😆 Just kidding. I thought there was going to be a call for new language features. The article is well thought out and reasoned and so I have to agree.