Re:A History of Clojure [pdf]
by omginternets on Thursday June 04, 2020 @02:15PM
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>I'd love to use a light-weight Clojure hosted on Go, etc.
You may find this interesting: https://github.com/spy16/sabre
It's still pretty green, but it might float your boat.
Many of the issues Clojure has with the JVM are shared by regular Java apps, so I think there is motivation to improve many of these areas over time, even if it takes a bit.