I see your point here... I was addressing to the feedback loop during development time. Babashka works well for Clojure in a Unix tool pipeline.

It's also possible to compile your JVM Clojure program yourself to a binary with GraalVM for even better performance than Babashka and even faster startup.

Clojure and Common Lisp are the two cases where I’ve never felt the need to work in bash: most projects grow a library of utilities for development that aren’t limited by the stringly-typed nature of bash or zsh