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You definitely can. One example of a large project that does this is babashka, a fast native Clojure scripting runtime.

This is correct, you can compile Clojure to native code using GraalVM. There are many heavily used projects that do this.

And OpenJ9.

Eventually ART, although here the process would be more convuluted.

And if one is willing to give away a couple a big piles of money, PTC and Aicas are still in Java town.