It's there with e.g. the recur kludge (which some people prefer, instead of the implicit style where if you get the position wrong you blow your stack) and real support is waiting for support in the JVM, which with any luck will happen in the next version of Java.
I find clojure's current approach to tail recursion to work very well. Maybe I'm just not functional enough, but I'm not sure why function calls that don't push a stack frame should be done the same way as a regular function call. Doing a tail call explicitly is fine, and seems to work okay.
It has a certain elegance and conciseness and having different syntax for recur and the mutual recursion trampoline is perhaps more than inelegant.
Every little thing you add to a language makes it that much more difficult to remember and correctly use everything. The closer Clojure stays to Scheme in the Scheme to Common Lisp continuum the better.
An interesting idea, but this seems more like something intended for the author's personal use. Pretty much anybody else is going to want different libraries, especially for Python, which has many GUI and web dev packages. So you'll end up installing your own stuff anyway...
I can see a number of uses for something lilke this, but I don't understand why someone would put web-dev libraries on a live-cd. There are so many better uses.
True, but that's a lot of never ending work. If you control the horizontal and vertical you can I imagine without too much work achieve this narrow "it just works" goal.
One of my current projects is targeted at Xen; I can see myself taking the same approach someday.
