From Twitter: Maybe we have to face it: Clojure has nothing to offer web programming that is better enough to make people switch to Clojure

In January 2018, a ClojureVerse discussion surfaced Eric Normand's tweet questioning whether Clojure offered compelling web development advantages. Community members attributed adoption barriers to tooling complexity (setup friction, fragmented documentation, learning curves requiring JVM/JS expertise), paradigm unfamiliarity (functional programming and structural editing presented friction for developers from imperative/OO backgrounds), and communication failures (inability to articulate benefits, lack of "batteries-included" frameworks comparable to Rails).