[brlewis]

I'm excitedly curious about when this bullet point has come up as a selling point for the JVM in "enterprise" development:

* There are a number of alternative languages to choose from that can interoperate on the JVM (Scala, Clojure, JRuby, ...)

[theshadow]

Not all JVM languages are created equal (JRuby and to a lesser extent Clojure) are no way near Java in terms of performance on the JVM

[brlewis]

Kawa Scheme is near Java: http://per.bothner.com/blog/2010/Kawa-in-shootout/