Comment by bjourne

I'm explaining to you why Clojure won't reach mass adoption. I could offer you a long list of situations for which slow startup is a PITA and you would rebut my points by offering workarounds and I would rebut yours by showing why the workarounds are ineffective, and so on, but it would be waste of time. Users (me included) don't want to have to adapt to their tools. Tools that require users to adapt won't be popular. Perhaps you don't get it, but this is reality.