[maufdez]

There's always Armed Bear Common Lisp. which runs on the JVM, if you want to stay in it. And you can also try [Linj](https://github.com/xach/linj) which is similar to Common Lisp an transpiles to Java.

[_emacsomancer_]

Interesting. Can ABCL be used for the same sorts of use cases as Clojure?