There's no such thing as the Clojure interpreter. Clojure programs are translated into Java bytecode, which runs on the JVM, which is a native program. (see htt

There's no such thing as the Clojure interpreter. Clojure programs are translated into Java bytecode, which runs on the JVM, which is a native program. (see http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3107299/how-do-clojure-programs-compilers-interpreters-actually-work http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3107299/how-do-clojure-pr...) Pixie programs are translated into Pixie bytecode, which runs on the Pixie VM. Bytecode is, by definition, not "native".