I’ve been writing a lot of Java 11 recently, and I find it to just be a very pleasant environment to work in: the IDEs still are best in class, afaict; the newer APIs avoid a lot of the boilerplate I used to have to write out and there are generally mature libraries to interact with just about any system you might need. Where Clojure really shines is that it’s a really well thought-out layer that can leverage this ecosystem and adds its own well-designed tools on top for my preferred more-interactive development style.