A lot of the early Clojure community will tell you their entry point wasn't a framework or a job requirement. It was an essay they read from Paul Graham that made them feel like they were missing something. Clojure was where that search eventually ended.

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Developers share how Paul Graham's essays and books on Lisp — particularly 'Beating the Averages' and 'On Lisp' — inspired them to seek out a Lisp-based language. Common Lisp fell short due to library gaps and deployment friction, but Clojure's JVM targeting solved the practical adoption problem, making it an attractive entry point into the Lisp world.

Paul Graham, Lisp, and Clojure