Anecdotal, but I don't think I ever programmed in Java before Clojure. I came to Clojure via Ruby, and was deciding between Clojure and SBCL, and Clojure won ou

Anecdotal, but I don't think I ever programmed in Java before Clojure. I came to Clojure via Ruby, and was deciding between Clojure and SBCL, and Clojure won out. Being hosted on the JVM was part of that: extensive availability of the JVM and interop with existing Java libraries made it easier to get started.