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by gtrak 4515 days ago
Better stacktraces would be better, sure, but there are good arguments on both sides whether it's better to separate the language from the platform or not.

I prefer a thin, readable compiler and core library over such abstractions. I don't mind the stacktraces, but I could see how some people might.

The fact that clojure is host-centric makes clojure and clojurescript compelling to java or javascript programmers at the expense of some aesthetics, and it also has performance implications.