[iLemming]

I heard that Rich Hickey chose Clojure because it has both `CLR` and `J` - initially he thought Clojure will be adopted in both - .Net CLR and JVM

[kencausey]

I may be reading more into 'initially he thought' than you meant but Clojure CLR is real and has been around for years: https://github.com/clojure/clojure-clr