As someone who has done some Clojure, including some smaller projects in production at a big company, Clojure running on BEAM would have been a complete non-sta

As someone who has done some Clojure, including some smaller projects in production at a big company, Clojure running on BEAM would have been a complete non-starter. It's really easy to introduce Clojure into a Java shop, because if things go south, you can throw away a bit of code and replace it with Java. Heck, people on other teams don't even have to know this started as Clojure code. Asking people to learn both a new way of developing and a new VM? Too much all at once, which is why Clojure spread as far as quickly as it did.