Yeah, this is something I’ve been pondering about. I’ve been doing 10 years of C++, and after a 6 months affair with Haskell fell in love with LISP. Now I’ve been doing Clojure professionally for about 5 years, and now am in a phase where I realize the grass is not green anywhere. I’ve been shocked at some of the bugs in my Clojure code that went unnoticed for way too long, and at the same time I remember the amount of “compiler fighting” that C++ or Haskell required.

It’s just a trade-off, in the end, and depends on what poison you can digest.