Why is it so un-java?

[collinalexbell]

Why does it use def, square brackets, and other vestigal clojure syntax? I can't give this to my Java friends, they'd laugh. There is a JiSE out there waiting to be discovered that they wouldn't laugh it.

[athos]

JiSE is just a set of Clojure macros, and is intended to used as an embedded DSL to make it easy to write code that is otherwise hard to write with bare Clojure. The main target users of the library are Clojurians, so I designed the language to be more familiar for them.
If you are looking for a standalone language that can replace Java, I think JiSE is not for you, unfortunately.

[collinalexbell]

Ah, Ok. I'll become a Clojurian and use your DSL then.