I think if you would want a native, high-performing Clojure going the LLVM route would be a possible way. But I was specifically mentioning Go, because it's abo

I think if you would want a native, high-performing Clojure going the LLVM route would be a possible way. But I was specifically mentioning Go, because it's about as minimalitic as you can get right now, while still supporting a sufficiently large feature set (i.e. not as limited as TCC). A lot of that comes from its Plan 9 heritage, of course. The syntax ain't that grand, though. And it could have a better FFI. So, having that in one package would be really great for some Unix-y programming. Right now, without too much baggage. Basically the lispy answer to Ocaml. And then build some libraries on it that inherently take advantage of Clojure and don't just wrap existing things. Which probably would be similar to the way the node.js infrastructure is growing. It's a pipe dream, I know. The ability to use all that JVM enterprise hooplah is too important for most users. And its a pragmatic language, after all.