No, it's because Scala's dependencies / libraries get distributed as compiled .c...

		bad_user on June 30, 2015 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Clojure 1.7 is now available No, it's because Scala's dependencies / libraries get distributed as compiled .class files, whereas Clojure's get distributed as source-code. Tried explaining this above: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9807323