I don't understand your complaint. Are you regularly finding bugs in the runtime and in the core libraries? If you compiled to byte code how would that makes anything easier?
Or you're just annoyed that stacks includes Java frames? In CIDER you can make it only display frames from your own code or only Clojure frames. Then you don't need to see Java frames.. and it'll look equivalent to being compiled to bytecode...
> Are you regularly finding bugs in the runtime and in the core libraries?
When I did work in Clojure/Script, I would regularly find bugs I couldn’t understand without stepping through core libraries and the runtime to understand them. Often they were my own bugs, sometimes bugs or just non ideal behavior. Hiding the stack frames would have been a hinderance for these cases.
Or you're just annoyed that stacks includes Java frames? In CIDER you can make it only display frames from your own code or only Clojure frames. Then you don't need to see Java frames.. and it'll look equivalent to being compiled to bytecode...