Clojure is a fascinating language. Rich Hickey gives a lot of his rationale for why he picked the JVM for it [1], which boils down to VMs being the platforms

Clojure is a fascinating language. Rich Hickey gives a lot of his rationale for why he picked the JVM for it [1], which boils down to VMs being the platforms of future, not OSes like Linux. [1] http://clojure.org/rationale http://clojure.org/rationale