diff --git a/pkgs/development/interpreters/babashka/wrapped.nix b/pkgs/development/interpreters/babashka/wrapped.nix
index 64c4acff066c..4b77eddab03c 100644
--- a/pkgs/development/interpreters/babashka/wrapped.nix
+++ b/pkgs/development/interpreters/babashka/wrapped.nix
@@ -1,12 +1,22 @@
-{ stdenv
+{ stdenvNoCC
+, lib
 , babashka-unwrapped
 , clojure
 , makeWrapper
 , rlwrap
 
 , jdkBabashka ? clojure.jdk
+
+  # rlwrap is a small utility to allow the editing of keyboard input, see
+  # https://book.babashka.org/#_repl
+  #
+  # NOTE In some cases, rlwrap prints some extra empty lines. That behavior can
+  # break some babashka scripts. For this reason, it is disabled by default. See:
+  # https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/issues/246839
+  # https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/pull/248207
+, withRlwrap ? false
 }:
-stdenv.mkDerivation (finalAttrs: {
+stdenvNoCC.mkDerivation (finalAttrs: {
   pname = "babashka";
   inherit (babashka-unwrapped) version meta doInstallCheck installCheckPhase;
 
@@ -27,6 +37,8 @@ stdenv.mkDerivation (finalAttrs: {
         --set-default DEPS_CLJ_TOOLS_DIR $out/clojure_tools \
         --set-default JAVA_HOME ${jdkBabashka}
 
+    '' +
+    lib.optionalString withRlwrap ''
       substituteInPlace $out/bin/bb \
         --replace '"${unwrapped-bin}"' '"${rlwrap}/bin/rlwrap" "${unwrapped-bin}"'
     '';