and for CL: https://github.com/ciel-lang/CIEL/ (pre-alpha) CL with many batteries included (json, csv, http, CLI parser…) so the scripts start fast.

Babashka has very fast startup, has solid filesystem bindings via babashka.fs, http client and server, awyeah for AWS, Jackson or pure Clojure JSON, access to GraalVM friendly Clojure and Java libraries. Well maintained and mature. Go Borkdude!