I got really excited for a second, and then I realized it was April 1st. Clojure is a language I absolutely love, but have abandoned for practical reasons. (De

I got really excited for a second, and then I realized it was April 1st. Clojure is a language I absolutely love, but have abandoned for practical reasons. (Debugging Clojure is an absolute nightmare, and the tooling doesn't quite agree with me. The JVM is the biggest hurdle in making Clojure useful for me: it causes slow startups times, a bloated environment, and makes it hard to deploy in our production environment.) So my immediate though when I read "a better Clojure" was: somebody wrote an LLVM front-end for Clojure and turned it into a fast language compiled to native code.