[drikerf]

Why? Just curious. I've found the JVM to be surprisingly stable and great to work with.

[djha-skin]

Super long startup times and large binary size are what turned me off. This is clojure specifically not jvm specific. I find the JVM to be fine, but when I looked for another lisp I did want one that was compiled just because it was easier to distribute my programs.

[didibus]

You can compile it to a native binary, then you get super fast startup times and small-ish binary sizes.

[ARandomerDude]

I love Clojure but the JVM is admittedly resource hungry.

[drikerf]

I haven't found that to be an issue. For small programs there's also babashka.