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Clojure is my favourite alternative language on the JVM, besides offering what Lisps have provided for decades, their philosophy of embracing the host platform, instead of all the talk that the next JVM will be rewriten in it like some others do, makes being around Clojure folks much more appealing.

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When I was younger this actually irked me a bit. I wasn't familiar with either, so it felt burdensome to me. The tooling also wasn't as good as it is now.

However there's no doubt that this is one of the primary reasons why Clojure became relevant and widely used (for a niche language). Seamless integration (or even improved integration) is very useful.

Another language that takes this approach is Zig. My intuition is that here as well, it's a unique selling point that will help with adoption and day to day usefulness.

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