>but that would only matter if those limitations outweighed the advantages of developing with lisp?

Yes, and I doubt this Zygomys can reload code in runtime because of limitations of it's platform.

>so from "clojure is worthless parasite on jvm" we're down to "clojure is a lisp which i haven't tried yet but it's on jvm so i think it lacks tail recursion"

Nope, I wasn't talking about clojure.