Yeah, somewhat agree. The Clojure community has put so much effort into working with GraalVM.

* https://convexhuman.com/graalvm-clojure.html * https://nitor.com/en/articles/fast-cold-starts-for-clojure-i... * https://www.innoq.com/en/blog/native-clojure-and-graalvm/

Since development in the REPL is so common (watch any Clojure live coding session), JVM startup time isn't much of an issue in practice.

This solves the startup-time of (static) applications, but not the startup time of for example executables, which include the development environment.