This is actually one of my rare criticisms of Clojure. There's a patch, but there was apparently concern about perf. Personally, if I had to do a lot of interop

This is actually one of my rare criticisms of Clojure. There's a patch, but there was apparently concern about perf. Personally, if I had to do a lot of interop like this, I'd pull it into a custom build, as it wasn't large. I've not kept up with it lately, though, as I haven't needed to do a lot with Kafka recently.