The performance difference between Clojure and the pure Java implementations was much smaller than I'd thought. Quite amazing for a dynamically typed language t

The performance difference between Clojure and the pure Java implementations was much smaller than I'd thought. Quite amazing for a dynamically typed language to get so close to Java in performance, to be honest. That's not surprising given that they rewrote all the middleware in Java and the Clojure part was just a very thin wrapper around vertx. And that's fine, it's what makes Clojure usable in production, but the vast majority of Clojure users bash Java all the time, take this libraries for granted and ignore the fact that a big range of software for the JVM is better written in Java than in Clojure.