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I'm one of those who think the JVM is a big plus instead of a big minus. For example, here is a post how you can easily deep dive into the internals of the JVM to figure out a problem: https://8thlight.com/blog/colin-jones/2017/03/17/everybody-o...

I wanna see this kind of tooling for other languages. The JVM gives you amazing tools that are already there for you even if you're not an expert.

In a typical Lisp system you measure runtime and you'll get GC time, too. In Common Lisp you use the TIME macro for that.

In LispWorks I would for example set a memory check for a certain memory size. That would call a function when memory grows over a limit.

You then don't need to look at a heap dump, you can inspect the Lisp memory from the inside with the usual tools...