There haven't really been a lot of efforts to get a high-speed web frameworks done in just Clojure as that's not normally how professional Clojure developers wo

There haven't really been a lot of efforts to get a high-speed web frameworks done in just Clojure as that's not normally how professional Clojure developers work and deploy code. Not a lot of Clojure developers use frameworks in the first place, so the HTTP server ends up being something that gets pulled in as a library, and since it's running on the JVM, you use JVM servers, which are fast. vertx seems to be something that scores high, but unfortunately only the Scala binding seems to be in the benchmark you mentioned. Here's a Clojure alternative: https://github.com/vertx-clojure/vertx https://github.com/vertx-clojure/vertx CLI apps are easily solved with Babashka now.