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Clojure is odd in this way. Java was created as a cohesive, self-sufficient platform. Clojure was always envisioned as sort of a passenger — something to be grafted on to an existing platform. From the very early days, it already lived in two different environments simultaneously (the JVM and CLR), so the culture and the practices were already there, and it wasn't too jarring when they added JavaScript.