"I really love Clojure, but it still feels a bit heavy-weight for anything but numerical computation."
That is really weird. If there's one area where Clojure feels a bit strange to me it is numerical computation. I haven't fully looked into it yet but there's the whole underlying Java idiosynchrasies issue : for example where you need to wrap inside unchecked-int to dodge overflow issue or the fact that you need to be careful to be sure to fall back to primitives if you don't want to kill your perfs, etc.
In addition to that a lot of intensive computation do work really best when using mutable data structure. Which is sharp contrast with Clojure's main philosophy that favors avoiding mutability. Note that it cannot be done, it can, but it kinda feels "weird".
Then your question gets weirder: you ask about the advantages of ClojureScript server-side templating when the article specifically mentions using Clojure on the server and ClojureScript on the front-end (if I'm not mistaken).
Actually, we do our numerical work in clojure too and make heavy use of mutable java data structures - and it's a joy to program in Clojure for these tasks.
That is really weird. If there's one area where Clojure feels a bit strange to me it is numerical computation. I haven't fully looked into it yet but there's the whole underlying Java idiosynchrasies issue : for example where you need to wrap inside unchecked-int to dodge overflow issue or the fact that you need to be careful to be sure to fall back to primitives if you don't want to kill your perfs, etc.
In addition to that a lot of intensive computation do work really best when using mutable data structure. Which is sharp contrast with Clojure's main philosophy that favors avoiding mutability. Note that it cannot be done, it can, but it kinda feels "weird".
Then your question gets weirder: you ask about the advantages of ClojureScript server-side templating when the article specifically mentions using Clojure on the server and ClojureScript on the front-end (if I'm not mistaken).