I'm one of the developers of jark[1][2], which does something vaguely similar [maintains a persistent jvm into which clojure code can be loaded and to which a c

I'm one of the developers of jark[1][2], which does something vaguely similar [maintains a persistent jvm into which clojure code can be loaded and to which a clojure repl can be connected], and we decided to go with a native client, so that you can attach to a remote jvm without having java installed. the cost is running an nrepl server in the jvm, but if you can manage that you could probably just reuse our client (I'm in the middle of pushing all jark functionality into the server so that the client is just an nrepl client and a repl) [1] https://github.com/icylisper/jark-server https://github.com/icylisper/jark-server [2] https://github.com/icylisper/jark-client https://github.com/icylisper/jark-client