I have had to interact with Java regularly from Clojure. Many libraries have no Clojure bindings, e.g. XGBoost. Many libraries have wrappers that are incomplete

I have had to interact with Java regularly from Clojure. Many libraries have no Clojure bindings, e.g. XGBoost. Many libraries have wrappers that are incomplete or abandoned and so might need extending with Java interop, e.g. Java Topology Suite. Some gnarly stuff like mapping objects back and forth from JDBC requires understanding of the underlying Java types. I have found it necessary to understand different Java command line arguments and garbage collectors. More generally, I _like_ that I have the option of any JVM library. It’s an enormously broad and deep platform and Clojure is a very pragmatic way of exploiting all of that work.