I'm with you on stock JVM. The slow startup time is often a deal breaker for me. But there are projects that address this. Like https://github.com/babashka/baba

I'm with you on stock JVM. The slow startup time is often a deal breaker for me. But there are projects that address this. Like https://github.com/babashka/babashka https://github.com/babashka/babashka for Clojure. Or GraalVM for general JVM use.