> CL saves me round after round of bugs that in clojure aren't found until you run the code

It is true that a lot of things don't surface until you run the code, but the way you run code in Clojure is also different than other languages (but similar to CL) where this isn't that big of a problem.

Usually you evaluate the very code you're working on, as an isolated unit, after every change, with just a key stroke. Again, not different than CL, but very different than the rest of the Algol-like languages where you'd put the code you're editing under unit tests or worse, manually run the full program after each change.