What kills Clojure for small scripts and not-long-running applications is the startup time and that can mostly be attributed to JVM Did you not read the articl

What kills Clojure for small scripts and not-long-running applications is the startup time and that can mostly be attributed to JVM Did you not read the article? Quote: "What we can see is that Java itself accounts for 0.35s of the startup time, but unfortunately Clojure adds another second(!) on top of that." So no, it can not be mostly attributed to JVM. Also, JVM in a low death spiral? What gives you that impression, the growing number of languages that target it? The fact that new versions continue to receive improvements, such as better support for dynamic languages in v. 7?