Since Clojure runs on the JVM, you can access any known class which is on your classpath out of Clojure. Here is a Scala example. To make the classpath setup and dependency management easier, use Leiningen to generate a project.
It is pretty easy to call other JVM languages from Clojure - all you need to do is use the Java interop syntax.
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