Which is nice. And it could definitely open up new avenues for them.
But for example one of the areas that Clojure has been doing well in is the enterprise big data space which is dominated by the JVM based Hadoop ecosystem. Likewise many companies feel comfortable bringing in Clojure because they can leverage their existing Java libraries.
My point was that getting rid of the JVM loses a lot of what made Clojure actually successful.
Who got rid of the JVM? Pixie is not Clojure 2. Clojure still exists and you can use it, but now Pixie also exists and you can also use it. There is no downside unless you think developing languages which don't run on the JVM is a waste of time.
But for example one of the areas that Clojure has been doing well in is the enterprise big data space which is dominated by the JVM based Hadoop ecosystem. Likewise many companies feel comfortable bringing in Clojure because they can leverage their existing Java libraries.
My point was that getting rid of the JVM loses a lot of what made Clojure actually successful.