This. Good stable foundations allow for quick software development. Even if you use AI for coding, working with Clojure as an experienced developer produces extremely good results quickly because of the great foundations.

I love the expression "the hammock time has already been spent": it is actually very accurate and I'm very grateful to the Clojure team and community for spending that time!

This is the germane point here. I'm not into LLM coding myself, but was talking about just this with my CS PhD supervisor yesterday, and porting language implementations is basically a perfect use case for them. He's been using them for porting examples from one language to another and was saying it was perfect - he already knows what he wants to see, understands both languages, and needs a syntax aware typist, essentially.

Great work. It just simply worked for me.