Well, maybe there were not as many die-hard lispers within the Clojure community and many were looking for something that handled better than Java 7. I know two

Well, maybe there were not as many die-hard lispers within the Clojure community and many were looking for something that handled better than Java 7. I know two other former Clojure programmers that went to Scala, but also find Java passable enough to just use it rather than Clojure.