Clojure doesn't do the image-based persistence thing. You can ahead-of-time compile to Java byte code if you want, but that's probably closer to the .fasl file

Clojure doesn't do the image-based persistence thing. You can ahead-of-time compile to Java byte code if you want, but that's probably closer to the .fasl files created by some Common Lisp implementations. No old bits of state floating around when you deploy a new server. Do occasionally miss the ability to save an image, but it doesn't seem to be the modern way (and would be a nightmare to implement well on top of the JVM). Can easily add a REPL to any Clojure program though.