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Check out Babashka. It's a single binary that runs Clojure without a JVM. It also starts up really fast and has a much lower base memory requirement: https://github.com/babashka/babashka

It's pretty easy to switch to writing JVM Clojure if you're familiar with Babashka. Most of the libraries written for Babashka are designed to work in either environment.

That said, there are reasons you may want to use the Clojure on the JVM later on. It might be interesting to read the replies to another poster with similar concerns about the JVM: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40445415

Interesting. Usually the reluctance comes from people confusing Java the language with JVM the platform.

Well, there aren’t too many more stable platforms out there, so your experience elsewhere couldn’t be all that cloudless either.

You can also try ClojureScript, which runs on JavaScript. If you're developing frontends.