That article is disingenuous, the startup time of "hello world" in Clojure is still pretty bad but tolerable, the issue arises when you start to add libraries,

That article is disingenuous, the startup time of "hello world" in Clojure is still pretty bad but tolerable, the issue arises when you start to add libraries, now your web service can take from 1-2 minutes or more to start.