But it does have Macros. Being able to write a macro that changes the AST is pretty awesome. Definitely a LISP.

"Logic programming is a cool idea, but not that useful for most things"

Except that many regard Prolog as a precursor that little used language SQL.

Sql is slightly older than Prolog. They may have come from similar roots. And sql is used as an embedded subset not a whole systems programming language.

Given that the author writes the same physics-based app in both - it seems you're disagreeing with the author.

This is Pacman in Clojurescript: https://github.com/mjg123/pacman

This is Pacman in Javascript (I couldn't find one in Coffeescript): https://github.com/macek/google_pacman

I like how they pull it out step by step. The Y-Combinator just sort of falls out of the process.