For me it makes lots of sense, it is not "nonsense".

Java is a gigantic dependency. Any project that depends on it adds all this dependency with it. In many cases this dependency could be bad or toxic for the project.

It depends of what you do for a living. Personally I will never let anyone include java as a dependency in my company's projects, because for what we do, java is slow and linked to Oracle.

Lisp is a different story. You can create c ,Python, Lua,c++ or whatever code from Lisp easily.