>I personally use and love Clojure, but wish it compiled to native code.

It is a matter of implementation, not the language.

So you can:

- use a JVM with AOT compilation like Aonix and RoboVM among many others

- use a bytecode AOT compiler like Excelsior JET

- join the Clojure to C or Clojure to Scheme compiler projects

- write your own compiler