I am using Clojure a lot right now on a customer's project, a cool language for sure.
That said, I have doubts about Clojure + AppEngine because of the loading request times. I can get a Java + AppEngine app to do about a 1 to 2 second loading request time by not using JDO and minimizing dependencies.
Unfortunately, loading the Clojure JARs (or the JRuby JARs) increase the loading request time.
Sometimes when I go to TheDeadline, I see almost a 10 second delay on the first page load. Does not happen often, but it does happen.
That said, I have doubts about Clojure + AppEngine because of the loading request times. I can get a Java + AppEngine app to do about a 1 to 2 second loading request time by not using JDO and minimizing dependencies.
Unfortunately, loading the Clojure JARs (or the JRuby JARs) increase the loading request time.
Sometimes when I go to TheDeadline, I see almost a 10 second delay on the first page load. Does not happen often, but it does happen.