[kanaka]

And Clojure can target and interoperate with at least two of those stacks: Java (standard Clojure), Javascript (ClojureScript). And there is experimental support for C/C++ (clojurec, Ferret, etc). Not to mention in progress support for targeting CLR/C# (ClojureCLR) and python (clojure-py).

[sramsay]

Right. Clojure isn't the first Lisp for the JVM, but it's definitely the first one to care so deeply about other languages and existing libraries.

If you ask about C interop or creating standalone binaries on a Common Lisp board, you'll get an answer (because you can do this). But you'll also get this whole, "Oh, but why would you want to infect our beautiful language/runtime with the fallen world of imperative code, UNIX conventions, etc. Free your mind!"

That. That right there. That's the problem.