GP specifically mentioned startup time. It's true that most of the startup time for Clojure projects is a Clojure-specific interplay of things the JVM does (but

GP specifically mentioned startup time. It's true that most of the startup time for Clojure projects is a Clojure-specific interplay of things the JVM does (but also not language-intrinsic: ClojureScript on V8 does not share that problem, for example), but default flags CPython still beats default flags OpenJDK for "start and do nothing".