[zombot]

Agreed, "Java" was an oversimplification. It's actually JVM bytecode. It's still strange in my book to use an object soup runtime for something (Lisp/Scheme) that feels closer to functional languages to me.

Clojure is a different case, because when you already are on the JVM anyway, then Clojure is still infinitely better than no Lisp at all. It's not the same as putting the JVM somewhere where it wasn't before and where it's not actually needed.

[brazzy]

A serious Lisp/Scheme runtime needs a garbage collector. The JVM has probably the most advanced GC implementation around - for that reason alone it doesn't seem particularly strange to me.

[atgreen]

It's like Dr Ian Malcolm says.. "Your developers were so preoccupied with whether or not they could, they didn't stop to think if they should" - Jurrasic Park (almost)