Clojure is not only on JVM. There's Clojurescript. There's ClojureDart. There's ClojureCLR. There a bunch of experimental things like ClojureRS (Rust) and Clojerl (for Erlang). You can "talk to" Python and R from Clojure. You can use Fennel if you need to deal with Lua (It's not Clojure, but it's very Clojure-like lang). The benefits are there, for any platform you choose.