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Re:Clojure is cool by markc on Sunday September 09, 2018 @09:27PM (#17948782)
Don't know about bloat fixes, but what does your workflow look like that JVM starts are annoying? My Emacs CIDER REPL comes up in 4 seconds (MB Pro 16G) and it's often many hours (even days sometimes) between restarts.

But yes, slow starts are annoying if you're starting a JVM frequently. Can you change your workflow so that's not needed? Check out Component, Mount or Integrant.

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Re:Clojure is cool by dancek on Tuesday September 11, 2018 @08:55AM (#17959267)
This is a relevant answer. Thank you.

We're using Integrant already so yes, I can mostly work in a REPL without restarting. But the restarts are more like 15 seconds. I'll have to measure and see what's so slow. My rdev platform is Cursive on a 16G MBP.

And while I'm commenting, yes, we have a reason to run on JVM (a lot of legacy Java code we probably want to interface with later on). So thanks to other commenters for suggesting Node.js and Common Lisp, but not possible. :)

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