I'm wondering if not used Clojure functions are trimmed from GraalVM native image artifact? I know that for plain Java it works that way, however I'm not sure about Clojure in this case.

It also works that way for Clojure

unless you do dynamic stuff like requiring-resolve at runtime which really can bloat the image

Thanks for clarification. Now, I understand why some of the libraries that load code dynamically produce large artifacts.

@karol.wojcik yes, you can avoid this by doing the dynamic require at compile time, i.e. top level, but "inline" it's going to bloat stuff. I've made https://github.com/borkdude/dynaload specifically to address that issue (based on dynaload from spec)

See the GraalVM section here: https://github.com/borkdude/dynaload#graalvm

Whoa. I was aware of the existence of this library, but never understood it's purpose. Now it's clear to me why it matters.