Yep and even then Clojure has Erlang and .net runtimes and interop built syntactically into the language, GraalVM has to reimplement those languages in it's too

Yep and even then Clojure has Erlang and .net runtimes and interop built syntactically into the language, GraalVM has to reimplement those languages in it's tooling so they'll always be playing catch-up with the real implementations (unless they merge) That said we do like GraalVM it has a cool ability to create native binaries out of Clojure apps, which is currently powering a resurgence in Clojure for scripting the last wave had to use Clojure's JavaScript target (cljs)