Why Clojure Doesn't Need Invokedynamic (Unless You Want It to be More Awesome)

Charles Oliver Nutter Java, Ruby, and JVM guy trying to make sense of it all This was originally posted as a comment on @fogus's blog post "Why Clojure doesn’t need invokedynamic, but it might be nice". I figured it's worth a top-level post here. Ok, there's some good points here and a few misguided/misinformed positions. I'll try to cover everything. First, I need to point out a key detail of inv