&quot;Clojure would be a nice environment to work with if it wasn&#x27;t running on JVM. It renders Clojure a resource hog, and the startup time is awful. A big no-no for most of my use cases.&quot;<p>Then don&#x27;t use it, right? There are plenty of use cases for which Clojure makes sense, and where running on the JVM is a perk.