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.

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.

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.