I agree, just note that a Truffle implementation doesn't require a new runtime (if by runtime you mean a Java runtime; Truffle works on OpenJDK) and that the im

I agree, just note that a Truffle implementation doesn't require a new runtime (if by runtime you mean a Java runtime; Truffle works on OpenJDK) and that the implementation of Babashka already depends on a Clojure interpreter (just not one based on the Truffle framework) that's a different implementation from mainline Clojure (which uses a compiler to bytecode). My point wasn't so much to suggest to Clojure's stewards a course of action but to say that since Babashka already makes use of Native Image to get fast startup and already depends on a separate interpreter implementation that suffers from runtime performance, then Babashka may want to consider basing their interpreter on Truffle to improve runtime performance. If you already picked Native Image for your product and already decided to create a separate implementation of the language based on a source-code interpreter, might as well try basing it on Truffle.