[TeMPOraL]

Because as 'klibertp wrote, they're two vastly different languages, with different design decisions.

The whole thread is about primarily Common Lisp; people who enjoy the design choices made by the CL standardization committee and subsequent evolution of the language's ecosystem would most likely want to know that there exists a proper CL implementation for JVM.

[nikofeyn]

but the person i replied to replied to a commenter lamenting the fact that there was nothing but java and c style development jobs instead of lisp inspired jobs. they weren't lamenting the lack of jobs specific to just common lisp. and to me, it doesn't make sense to "sneak in" an esoteric implementation of lisp on the jvm when clojure already exists. what makes people think that would be easier to sell at a place using java heavily?

[TeMPOraL]

I wouldn't call ABCL esoteric; it's as rightful JVM citizen as Clojure or Scala. That said, I agree it's much, much less popular in the JVM world, so it could be a harder sell.