A nice post full of helpful insights and techniques (no.disassemble is particularly fun, I think). To be honest, I find (JVM) Clojure is pretty fast, as mentio

A nice post full of helpful insights and techniques (no.disassemble is particularly fun, I think). To be honest, I find (JVM) Clojure is pretty fast, as mentioned elsewhere in the comments. Once my program has gotten off the ground -- most of the time my biggest wish is for faster startup time, and lately Babashka (an interpreted Clojure implemented with GraalVM, which starts more or less instantly) is my go-to for small, short programs I run often ... "scripts", I guess, though Clojure is expressive to do stuff in Babashka that I wouldn't dream of doing in Bash.