You can also target nodejs with ClojureScript, which leads to blazing fast scripts/startup time. See as an example: https://github.com/georgewsinger/yaml-table

You can also target nodejs with ClojureScript, which leads to blazing fast scripts/startup time. See as an example: https://github.com/georgewsinger/yaml-table https://github.com/georgewsinger/yaml-table This script takes about 100 ms on my computer and about 2.25 seconds (!) to run via pure clojure on the JVM.