Not that you can't do it in Clojure or any given language.

In the end, they're happy with Rust. I really like what little Rust I've done. I still reach for JS/Node first only because I can get something working faster often because of what's in the box and in npm. It's far from the most performant, but often fast enough. C# tends to be my second level, though as I become more familiar with Rust, it may displace this.

You can't be an expert in everything and sometimes a given language will lend itself to the way you think in idiomatic terms.

The article is an anecdote on a personal experience, not an assault on Clojure or the ecosystem. Even if it is critical at a couple points.

Modern statically typed languages are not the abtrusive, verbose dinosaurs of yesteryear. They can be used without type annotations quite often, and have almost no expressiveness limitations compared to dynamic languages.

I love clojure. It's almost my favorite language, the syntax is amazing and the experience of using paredit and the many bespoke control flow structures that make your problems easy to model make it feel like God's language. But yeah, debugging is massively painful. Stack traces are useless, and the lack of types makes errors pop-up in places you wouldn't expect.

That's not a subjective thing. It's a weakness of the language. There's no drawback to having optional static guarantees. Can we stop pretending this debate is not worth having?