Yeah - I didn't mean to imply that that was Hickey's main motivation for the tie-in. Ultimately the sheer real-world prevalence of Java might make my original gripe irrelevant.
You say you don't really need to know the de-facto language of such "host" platforms, but that strikes me as putting a developer into a rather fussy and boxed-in posture if they're going to try and use the NewLang seriously/professionally.
You say you don't really need to know the de-facto language of such "host" platforms, but that strikes me as putting a developer into a rather fussy and boxed-in posture if they're going to try and use the NewLang seriously/professionally.