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by vickychijwani 3325 days ago
As much as I want this, it's not going to happen for the simple reason that Clojure adds a big runtime and a huge startup cost on Android, which is unacceptable. It's fine for servers, but a total deal-breaker for mobile apps.

Kotlin on the other hand has a tiny runtime (< 1 MB before dead-code elimination etc with Proguard) and negligible startup cost - in fact several popular Android libraries have a bigger startup cost impact than Kotlin.