[filoeleven]

You wrote above:

> If you write in something like C++ or Java running on Linux or Windows I'm confident that in 20 years you will find a tool that can build your code for the latest computers

What I wrote was based on your confidence in Java (the language) being around in 20 years. One of Java’s core features is backwards compatibility. Clojure’s implementation will continue to work as long as Java (the language) itself exists. There’s too much business depending on old Java software for the language to break like Python3 did.

Clojure is also a hosted language by design, and has been ported to JS, .NET, and BEAM (though maybe not completely on that one). If JVM2 were to come out, and if it supported garbage collection, it’s likely that porting it will be easy enough for someone to handle the task of transitioning the JVM1 build to JVM2. Implementing a lisp is not a rare hobby, and IMO Clojure’s language design makes it a particularly tasty flavor of lisp.