That's what I thought. Clojure is a "parasitic" language, meaning that it is meant to work with a host, so it should not be too hard to make it work with a Go environment. Plus, the fact that there is a very well working ClojureScript means that any "hard" deps on the JVM's original implementation should be gone. Clojure is a sweet language to work in, but you just cannot create a small executable out of it.