You don't need to "know Java very well", adding that to a minimal clojure curriculum is a very misguided recommendation. You can do loads of things without nee

You don't need to "know Java very well", adding that to a minimal clojure curriculum is a very misguided recommendation. You can do loads of things without needing more knowledge from java than: a) it exists, b) it has stacktraces, that you will read on errors, and c) that you pack it in a .jar. You can even easily do with less, as you can use e.g. heroku without knowing how to create a jar file, just pushing a repo, and you can start working with clojurescript and avoid java whatsoever.