Not necessarily the case with Clojure? I disagree. Java interop is very easy and fully supported in Clojure.
I guess I was specifically looking at some older blogs https://leftfold.tech/blog/posts/adopting-clojure-in-a-hostile-environment/#interop-issues and https://metaphysicaldeveloper.wordpress.com/2012/04/20/conjcraft-a-minecraft-mod-implemented-in-clojure/ where they both seem to talk about interop issues and how clojure might differ from Scala or Groovy in that regard but I do admit that some of this is still a bit above my level of current understanding so maybe its a "revisit this later" type of situation once I know may around better
wow appologies, I did not realize it would take the link and then also paste the entire text of one of the articles
No worries about the text of the link. Anyway, interop is fine, easy, and idiomatic in Clojure.