@admay For me Graal was the turning point in writing CLI applications in Clojure. Most of the time when building a client for a server side app one needs instant startup and these commands tend to live short. Before Graal I always had to write the CLI stuff in rust or go just to avoid the massive jvm overhead but had to give up clojure’s expressiveness.

I would never compile a server side app to Graal native as it totally defeats the JVM JIT’s purpose.

@admay the "Native Clojure with GraalVM" talk by Jan Stępień was along these lines (i.e. the cli angle)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=topKYJgv6qA

One reason to look more into Haskell for me was to have fast binary CLI’s but now it’s possible with Clojure…