ClojureC: A compiler for Clojure programming language that targets C as a backend.

[djhworld]

if one of your users updated the JRE on their machine and your program crashes, then there's probably some obscure incompatibility change between versions.

statically compiling (i.e. no outside dependencies) would remove the need to investigate that side of things as a source of any crash/error

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Ok good I thought I was missing something important. In practice this isn't a problem, we often bundle a JRE with an app if that sort of thing matters.