If you are utilizing the JVM via Clojure, the situation is not that bad. A lot of Clojure's and Java stdlib's features are now available pre-compiled with GraalVM as a native executable via https://github.com/babashka/babashka, which provides you with instant process start

So the Java ecosystem is kinda living its renaissance now :)

But overall I very much share your sentiment.

Also worth noting that if you really want to slim a JVM runtime down, from a typical ~300MB size to ~50MB, it's not very complicated using `jlink`: https://medium.com/de-bijenkorf-techblog/creating-the-smalle...

It's still 50 times more than what I consider sane, but still... ;)