First of all, I appreciate the reply!

Although I'm curious, I wouldn't ask you to explain why. You probably have your reasons. But I want to note that I love Elm. Elm is a fantastic language. For what is it made for - to build single-page web app frontends, it is hard to think of a better choice.

I'm happy to answer! Elm has been a fantastic introduction to functional programming. At work, we're very happy that we took the risk on it early on in our startup. What I'm looking for more is a more advanced language, that has things like type classes. A more open development plan would be great too.

And I'm not going to tell you that Clojurescript is necessarily better. However, if your choice is dictated by academic curiosity, by all means, do try Purescript. But if you're seeking a tool that allows you to move fast but at the same time to be not too sloppy, maybe give Clojure a try. Beware though: you will encounter things you probably won't like:

Are the downsides of PureScript, similar to those for Haskell?

I can definitely imagine your other points being so true.

Do Clojure(Script) apps often have runtime errors because of the lack of static type checking? With Elm, there is that nice guarantee that if it compiles, then it simply won't have any runtime errors.

I'm looking to spend more time with a Lisp, before trying out Haskell.

My life is never will be the same

I struggle to put into words why functional programming (and Elm) are are so good, it's sort of you just need to try it for a few months. Is that your experience with Clojure, or are you able to put it into words a bit more?