In real-world benchmarks in a real app I have tried to make Clojure slower than Java. I can't. In rare cases Java will beat it in insignificant ways in insignif

In real-world benchmarks in a real app I have tried to make Clojure slower than Java. I can't. In rare cases Java will beat it in insignificant ways in insignificant amounts, but I found that Clojure sometimes beats it in significant ways because of the runtime's tendency toward laziness. Furthermore, Clojure is a very dynamic language that can leverage every library Java has plus all its own. As a result I will not program in Java willingly. There's just no reason to do it. Not with at least one language that's far better in real, quantifiable ways. There are other languages that run on the JVM that could tell a similar story. Unfortunately those are not Jython or JRuby.