The thing that tipped me over the edge into learning ClojureScript was the news almost exactly a decade ago about achieving self-hosted compilation with eval [0] (kudos David!). In the end that specific capability was not quite practical enough for what I needed, but it proved a level of sophistication and maturity in the stack that has only increased since.
Today we also have sci/scittle/cherry for anyone who's seeking that runtime Clojure->JS eval vision. And now with Jank (LLVM Clojure) on the horizon this year it's never been a better time to try Clojure, regardless of which hosted runtime you're enthusiastic to use - Basilisp on Python, ClojureCLR, ClojureDart etc.
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The thing that tipped me over the edge into learning ClojureScript was the news almost exactly a decade ago about achieving self-hosted compilation with eval [0] (kudos David!). In the end that specific capability was not quite practical enough for what I needed, but it proved a level of sophistication and maturity in the stack that has only increased since.
Today we also have sci/scittle/cherry for anyone who's seeking that runtime Clojure->JS eval vision. And now with Jank (LLVM Clojure) on the horizon this year it's never been a better time to try Clojure, regardless of which hosted runtime you're enthusiastic to use - Basilisp on Python, ClojureCLR, ClojureDart etc.
[0] https://swannodette.github.io/2015/07/29/clojurescript-17/