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Mmmh yeah but what is the alternative? To not have access to the JVM ecosystem? You could make an analogous argument for C not being portable, since it uses an

• amelius 10y ago
  The alternative is that the ecosystem itself is written in Clojure (or at least the most important parts of it). Of course, you will always have a set of points at which the language needs to call lower-level functionality, but you should keep that set as small as possible, to make the ecosystem easier to port. And in the modern "client/server" world, you really need this, because systems are often heterogeneous, and you often need to move one piece of code to another part of the system which runs on a different runtime.