alt Hacker News> Programming language syntax scarcely matters. It does to some extent but we the programmers tend to over-romanticize it. The runtime and its properties are the much better thing to optimize for.
I'm not sure I understand this argument. Java and Clojure share a runtime, but an idiomatic Java codebase is going to have a very different architecture and design to an idiomatic Clojure codebase. Conversely, a codebase written in Go may end up looking very similar to a codebase written in Java, despite using different runtimes.
I mean runtime guarantees and features. In this case: effortless / near-invisible concurrency and parallelism.
As mentioned, I did like Clojure. I'd switch to it if it was running inside the Erlang runtime (like Elixir does).