[ethersteeds]

As others have said, Clojure is still a thing. For anyone catching up with Clojure again after some time: check out Babashka! Think bash scripts, written in Clojure. It's delightful.

https://babashka.org/

[precompute]

Babashka is the best scripting environment out there. You just need that one executable and it runs flawlessly. The bundled libs are also very useful.