The parent poster was talking about shipping "an actual application to a normal human being". A .jar file is a non-starter, as normal human beings these days do

The parent poster was talking about shipping "an actual application to a normal human being". A .jar file is a non-starter, as normal human beings these days don't have Java installed and have no desire to install it. Don't get me wrong: I love Clojure, and it's currently the language that pays my bills. But I'd never consider using it to build an app for end users (except possibly a ClojureScript React Native app for mobile devices).