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Thats a *selling point* not an advantage. More people might be inclined to try clojure knowing that there are already a large base of libraries. But that also holds back the language since Java is a VM based OO language used by a functional language that is restrained by what is provided in the Java API. It cant do things as simple as tail recursion optimizations. If clojure were implemented in C as most other compilers, than you have a more machine specific implementation to run on different platforms