[amelius]

In Unix it is customary to invoke tools from the Bash shell or Bash scripts. That doesn't mix well with a separate REPL.

[neilyio]

I see your point here... I was addressing to the feedback loop during development time. Babashka works well for Clojure in a Unix tool pipeline.

It's also possible to compile your JVM Clojure program yourself to a binary with GraalVM for even better performance than Babashka and even faster startup.

[fiddlerwoaroof]

Clojure and Common Lisp are the two cases where I’ve never felt the need to work in bash: most projects grow a library of utilities for development that aren’t limited by the stringly-typed nature of bash or zsh