diff --git a/src/babashka/impl/datafy.clj b/src/babashka/impl/datafy.clj
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..e9644f4d
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/babashka/impl/datafy.clj
@@ -0,0 +1,46 @@
+(ns babashka.impl.datafy
+  {:no-doc true}
+  (:refer-clojure :exclude [create-ns])
+  (:require [clojure.core.protocols :as p]
+            [clojure.datafy :as datafy]
+            [clojure.reflect]
+            [sci.core :refer [create-ns copy-var]]
+            [sci.impl.namespaces :refer [sci-ns-name sci-ns-publics sci-ns-imports sci-ns-interns]]
+            [sci.impl.vars]
+            [babashka.impl.common :refer [ctx]])
+  (:import [sci.impl.vars SciNamespace]))
+
+(defn- sortmap [m]
+  (into (sorted-map) m))
+
+;; Overrides for what is defined in clojure.datafy
+(extend-protocol p/Datafiable
+  clojure.lang.Namespace
+  (datafy [n]
+    ;; Override this with the default Object implementation. It bloats bb with 30mb and memory usage of GraalVM will peak!
+    #_(with-meta {:name (.getName n)
+                  :publics (-> n ns-publics sortmap)
+                  :imports (-> n ns-imports sortmap)
+                  :interns (-> n ns-interns sortmap)}
+        (meta n))
+    n)
+  java.lang.Class
+  (datafy [c]
+    ;; Statically use clojure.reflect instead of leaning on requiring-resolve
+    (let [{:keys [members] :as ret} (clojure.reflect/reflect c)]
+      (assoc ret :name (-> c .getName symbol) :members (->> members (group-by :name) sortmap)))))
+
+(extend-protocol p/Datafiable
+  SciNamespace
+  (datafy [n]
+    (with-meta {:name (sci-ns-name n)
+                :publics (->> n (sci-ns-publics @ctx) sortmap)
+                :imports (->> n (sci-ns-imports @ctx) sortmap)
+                :interns (->> n (sci-ns-interns @ctx) sortmap)}
+      (meta n))))
+
+(def datafy-ns (create-ns 'clojure.data nil))
+
+(def datafy-namespace
+  {'datafy (copy-var datafy/datafy datafy-ns)
+   'nav (copy-var datafy/nav datafy-ns)})
diff --git a/src/babashka/main.clj b/src/babashka/main.clj
index adec274d..d52cde29 100644
--- a/src/babashka/main.clj
+++ b/src/babashka/main.clj
@@ -16,6 +16,7 @@
    [babashka.impl.common :as common]
    [babashka.impl.curl :refer [curl-namespace]]
    [babashka.impl.data :as data]
+   [babashka.impl.datafy :refer [datafy-namespace]]
    [babashka.impl.features :as features]
    [babashka.impl.pods :as pods]
    [babashka.impl.repl :as repl]
@@ -368,7 +369,8 @@ If neither -e, -f, or --socket-repl are specified, then the first argument that
        'babashka.curl curl-namespace
        'babashka.pods pods/pods-namespace
        'bencode.core bencode-namespace
-       'clojure.java.browse browse-namespace}
+       'clojure.java.browse browse-namespace
+       'clojure.datafy datafy-namespace}
     features/xml?  (assoc 'clojure.data.xml @(resolve 'babashka.impl.xml/xml-namespace))
     features/yaml? (assoc 'clj-yaml.core @(resolve 'babashka.impl.yaml/yaml-namespace)
                           'flatland.ordered.map @(resolve 'babashka.impl.ordered/ordered-map-ns))