I personally do not like the experience of interop in any language, or using FFIs. Perhaps that is why on any project I've had, I make sure to use high-level Cl

I personally do not like the experience of interop in any language, or using FFIs. Perhaps that is why on any project I've had, I make sure to use high-level Clojure libraries that handle all the interop for me. So far, after nearly 4 years, that has not been a problem. But then again, all my projects have been raw Clojure from the start, and never projects where I had to deal with an existing Java code base or handle internal Java APIs at a company, etc. If you approach Clojure for a fresh project with the plan that it will just be a Clojure project, as I have, you will rarely if ever need to know a thing about Java. This is slightly less true for ClojureScript where some knowledge of JS can come in handy if you want to use JS libraries (which nearly all front-end developers eventually require). But even there, most needs are already wrapped up in Clojure libraries.