[xedrac]

If Clojure compiled to native code by default, instead of relying on the JVM, it'd be much more attractive to me. I know many people don't care about this...

[giancarlostoro]

You could probably achieve that via GraalVM I would think.

[TheFreim]

You definitely can. One example of a large project that does this is babashka, a fast native Clojure scripting runtime.

https://babashka.org/

[pjmlp]

And OpenJ9.

Eventually ART, although here the process would be more convuluted.

And if one is willing to give away a couple a big piles of money, PTC and Aicas are still in Java town.

[kmclean]

This is correct, you can compile Clojure to native code using GraalVM. There are many heavily used projects that do this.