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I know it's irrational, but I tend to avoid JVM languages after some bad past experiences. (Yes, I know, Java is great, and the JVM is vastly improved! I said it's irrational.)

On the other hand, I've been wanting to learn Clojure. It'd be nice to see this project mature.

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There is one big problem in projects like these - Clojure's packaging system is strongly tied to the java ecosystem.

packages written in pure clojure are also distributed as jars and the ecosystem is strongly dependent on maven.

I guess .Net [1] is no option either? Not sure if that stuff works on top of mono as well..

1: https://github.com/clojure/clojure-clr

I have that same irrational feeling about the JVM, I'll say this, go ahead and learn Clojure; it only slightly smells like the JVM.

To be fair, the JVM is why Clojure doesn't have TCO (and no, trampolines don't count).

Well the aim of this project seems to be to avoid the start up time of the JVM so clojure can be used for scripting.

You can use Clojurescript on top of Node.js to achieve that. I never tried it so I don't have first hand experience.

https://github.com/clojure/clojurescript/wiki

And also to "make use of [Python's] extensive, 'batteries included' libraries"

That's what seems the real benefit of it to me. Maybe Python will become not just a language, but a platform, like JVM or CLR, supporting multiple languages.

How does it accomplish that better than say, clojurescript+node?

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