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The only reason those alternate languages have buy in is because of the Java ecosystem, if Java fades aways those languages would likely fade away too.

You really think AWS is going to be offering Clojure SDKs?

Remains to be seem for Kotlin but the others haven't grow enough to develop a big ecosystem of their own.

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I'm referring to java the language not the JVM.

> AWS is going to be offering Clojure SDKs?

If enough people are using Clojure and it's nicer than using the aws-java-sdk. yes.

Scala has a pretty big ecosystem. There are lots of new and exciting things being built there. (This is what used to be the experimental frameworks, libraries and creative projects that used to exist in java)

Scala codebases typically depend on reams of Java jar files.

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