You can just use GraalVM for that. Also, Joker does not let you do what you want, it is not Clojure hosted on the Go runtime, it is a Clojure interpreter runtim

You can just use GraalVM for that. Also, Joker does not let you do what you want, it is not Clojure hosted on the Go runtime, it is a Clojure interpreter runtime implemented in Go, so with Joker you always need the joker binary. If you want to produce native shippable statically linked binaries with Clojure look at GraalVM native compilation: https://github.com/lread/clj-graal-docs https://github.com/lread/clj-graal-docs