The recent decision to fork the Google Closure Library (GCL) by ClojureScript developers aims to enhance backward compatibility for older libraries, ensuring that they function as they did over a decade ago. This move highlights ClojureScript's potential beyond just developing rich web applications, showing its capabilities in DOM manipulation, internationalization, and more, all while maintaining a lightweight JavaScript output. However, there are mixed opinions within the community regarding the value of this fork, particularly as it relates to GCL's role in complicating the use of third-party libraries.