Im not sure Clojure does make Web development much easier yet but as in with any language people like the want to develop as much as possible with it. So people trie to lift clojure to the web, this will take some time just as other languages took there time.
The reason why people want Clojure on the web could be (or "How Clojure can make your life easier for webapplications):
1. Use FP in the Web (I mean general imutability not closures)
2. Safe and easy concurency
3. Tons of java librarys for general stuff that you might do
4. Very powerful meta programming. Rails has shown this to be a win and with Clojure much more is possible.
I've been in the Clojure community for some time and the real "boom" of Webapplications in Clojure has only really lifted in the last year. I think its pretty impressiv how the Webstack developed in that time.
The reason why people want Clojure on the web could be (or "How Clojure can make your life easier for webapplications):
1. Use FP in the Web (I mean general imutability not closures) 2. Safe and easy concurency 3. Tons of java librarys for general stuff that you might do 4. Very powerful meta programming. Rails has shown this to be a win and with Clojure much more is possible.
I've been in the Clojure community for some time and the real "boom" of Webapplications in Clojure has only really lifted in the last year. I think its pretty impressiv how the Webstack developed in that time.