He wrote a blog post about it https://swlkr.com/posts/clojure-isnt-for-me/

TLDR: He hated the Java part of Clojure

Yeah that’s the long and short of it.

I spent a lot of time in jvm land though, a few years of nights and weekends, but I finally learned that it wasn’t for me.

I’m a C (or rust or llvm or what have you, wasm?) person, not a jvm person.

Tried GraalVM?

I’ve tried graal and native-image, both are awesome.

clojure still relies on the jvm though, for repl things.

sci and babashka were interesting, but at that point I had already moved on to janet

Ja that is always like a little splinter in my brain as well. I hope I don't bring out the language-wars but I always wanted a Clojure-Like but with Golang. :) I just love the go ecosystem and statistically compiled binary ! You shipping one binary ! :) No need to edit XML files and "tune java servers"

Again, this is just my preference. YMMYV

There are a few projects that try todo this like this one: https://github.com/mattn/golisp

But it seems abandoned.

I keep staring projects like this, but I haven't found the right level to put a lisp in the Go stack.

I've done a runtime lisp, but it felt like programming a lisp isolated from everything that made Go, well, Go. I've done a simple lisp to generate Go AST to do codegen pre-1.18, but that's not a complete program.

I haven't found the place yet that feels quite like Clojure.

there is joker https://github.com/candid82/joker but you may as well use the small clojure interpreter instead

The x86 monoculture has shaken around a bit. But surprisingly it seems there has been friction even on the JVM side, partly because of Docker style nonportable containers had time to cement in the x86 monoculture period.