You've heard of #scala language that works on the jvm. You also heard about scala native target to native (C) and interoping with that world side stepping the #jvm...

Now get ready for #clojure (jvm language) and it's target to Cpp.

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#jank programming language - Clojure/LLVM/C++

"Where jank differs from Clojure JVM is that its host is C++ on top of an LLVM-based JIT*