Yes. Clojure often feels like a skin over Java; an ergonomic library. Most visibly this is manifested in stack traces. Clojure also wants to compile files, ra

Yes. Clojure often feels like a skin over Java; an ergonomic library. Most visibly this is manifested in stack traces. Clojure also wants to compile files, rather than read them. There are good ideas in Clojure, but they lie around the parallelism abstractions, not around the implementation. Socially, of course, the JVM has a huge mindshare.