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Clojure-in-clojure will get rid of a lot of the java stuff. However, in the end you'll be tied to some platform if you want to use non-clojure-native libraries like swing or jetty.

There is of course Clojure CLR http://wiki.github.com/richhickey/clojure-clr/ which is clojure but on the CLR. And there are fundamental differences due to the underlying types (but this should change with clojure-in-clojure) and you're dealing with .net interop instead of java.

But the fundamental issue you bring up is that you can't do a production-ready tour based purely on clojure, and some of that is most likely due to the pragmatic nature of clojure - why write a complete web server when you can just provide a wrapper for jetty? I do think these will come in time, but they haven't had the chance to be as battle-tested as the java equivalents...




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