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I think the more interesting question would be why Clojerl over LFE (http://lfe.io/)?

Yes, there is a community around Clojure that would feel more at home with the BEAM if they could use Clojure there... and this is likely the answer to my first sentence... but once you get to a Lisp it seems like the leap is less far to another Lisp and LFE, I would think, is better established.

So I guess the real question would be, for those outside the Clojerl project, are the benefits Clojure more specifically on the BEAM worth the costs of foregoing a (possibly/likely) more mature Lisp that already exists for the BEAM?