Except then it might not have had as much uptake (tooling, existing Java libraries, installability to various providers and interoperability with existing syste

Except then it might not have had as much uptake (tooling, existing Java libraries, installability to various providers and interoperability with existing systems etc.). Now that Clojure has a varied and excellent set of libraries of its own maybe some of this is less important, but not all (the ability to interact with existing Java systems is still very useful).