Clojure would be a nice environment to work with if it wasn't running on JVM.
It renders Clojure a resource hog, and the startup time is awful. A big no-no
for most of my use cases.
> Python’s mysql and postgres database drivers required compilation. This made both developer machine setup as well as deployment more complicated than it really needed to be.
Not quite. You made setup more complicated than it needed to be. Ever heard
of binary packages?