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by videoappeal 5232 days ago
If complaining about the startup times of JVM then i believe a solution exists laready i.e. ClojureScript running on top of Node.Js be a better fit?
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> i believe [...] ClojureScript running on top of Node.Js be a better fit?

Why? Python is likely to be installed in far more environment than Node, and for scripting, Clj on top of Python provides the faster startup of Python interpreters without the callback spaghetti inherent to Node. Because even if Clojure(Script) handles functions better than Javascript (both in verbosity — fns are no more verbose than lets — and in its scoping handling) it's still callback spaghetti.

Why ClojureScript? because it is much closer to feature complete, tested, supported by the core team yada yada
> Why ClojureScript?

No, why is clojurescript a better fit (than clojure, running on Python)

Python is preinstalled on a lot of platforms. That might be relevant.