I think you’re really on point. This has been at the back of my mind for a while. It’s all the more unfortunate that there is no Clojure on Android! (outside of making JS/web apps).
The startup time “issue” is a bit overblown and it feels like a chicken/egg thing - there is no interest b/c it doesn’t exist. The past year in Clojure has had some exciting stuff going on. Recent stuff like scicloj have made Clojure branch out of the major money maker of backend web tech - but even the recent GUI libs (HumbleUI + CLJFX) eshew mobile.
Does anyone have a good sense of what are the technical challenges with running Clojure on ART? I’d like to poke at this but I don’t want to go down the rabbit hole without having a broad sense of the problems 