This works except when it doesn’t: my experience is that it seemed like the JVM is fundamentally static at its core in a way that makes it hard to implement a C

This works except when it doesn’t: my experience is that it seemed like the JVM is fundamentally static at its core in a way that makes it hard to implement a CL-style environment using Clojure’s hosting strategy. Boot build comes really close, here, but the community never really adopted it.