Honestly, the front end would be about as hard, unquestionably! But the Lisp ecosystem is already in play, whereas you seem to have had to build that ecosystem.

Honestly, the front end would be about as hard, unquestionably! But the Lisp ecosystem is already in play, whereas you seem to have had to build that ecosystem. That is to say, it's not a major effort to scrape through the Lisp systems to understand what is going on, whereas your ecosystem with Graal etc required a great deal of work, it seems to be. Would that be correct? Or was it pretty plug and play after you had JVM bytecode?