JBJBiserkov·Jun 3, 2026
indeed, light-weight means you just add a <script> and you're off to the races.
There's also nbb if you're targeting node https://github.com/babashka/nbb
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All this just to avoid writing JS in nodejs for simple scripts? why add more complexity to simple things? just to write JS with parenthesis? clojurescript is overkill and…
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22 sourcesnbb is is babashka for node - https://github.com/babashka/nbb
babashka was created to mitigate JVM slow startup. It's great for system scripting, automation, etc., basically a lightweight Clojure.
I think any programmer would benefit from learning a bit of Clojure. It's really nice for dealing with data, automation, etc.
I once had to scrape hundreds of videos from a website, and I was pleasantly surprised how quickly I was able to get it right, after setting up Puppetter and Cljs REPL, I interactively, from the REPL "clicked through" things controlling the browser, and created an async pipeline that opened hundreds of pages, looking up for video metadata and delegating the task of fetching videos to yt-dlp.
After learning Clojure and Clojurescript, I felt like all these - Python, JS, and Java are overrated and needlessly messy. I'm so gl
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ad I don't really have to directly deal with them daily. Even Lua, which before I had no problems whatsoever, and really enjoyed using, suddenly felt like "meh," and I'm glad there's now Fennel, which is not Clojure, but is very similar to it.
It's been years since I made anything mobile-native. I'll have to be choosing between React Native via Clojurescript and Clojure-Dart - which is very nice.
I am very excited about Jank-lang, can't wait for it to hit the first production-ready release, it will open some new possibilities.
So, I guess, I wasn't completely honest in answering what my "go-to" language is - I really don't care, it's just a matter of picking up a Clojure dialect for it, which itself being a Lisp dialect, is a choice among many other flavors of Lisp. Want to be a true "polyglot" coder? Just grab a Lisp.
I can understand why Lispers are often perceived as "crazy ones", it does sound crazy - "How is it possible for a single language to get absolutely everything right?". Well, no, it doesn't get "everything right", but at the very least the ideas it exposes you to can shield you from having to memorize the weirdness of tons of other languages.
nbb: Scripting in Clojure on Node.js Using SCI
2 points · Open discussionThe SCI/babashka clojure interpreter might be a good fit, if you're ok with a lisp.
It's mature and fully sandboxed.
https://github.com/babashka/nbb
In Embeddable Common Lisp 23.9.9I have a use case for Joker. Babashka doesn't support *BSD because GraalVM doesn't, so on *BSD your options are Joker and https://github.com/babashka/nbb. I wrote a short comment comparing them: https://github.com/babashka/babashka/issues/721#issuecomment....
In Joker is a small interpreted dialect of Clojure written in GoI wish there was something elaborated for scripts that run on Node. I've been using nbb[1] for scripting, and although it all runs through Node.js, it is fast to start up and quick to prototype/debug scripts. The best part is in CI I can simply `npx nbb path/to/script.cljs`. Things get clunky if I want to use anything outside of the Node stdlib (or the few things that come out of the box, like tools.cli for command-line argument parsing) though, since then you need the dreaded node_modules folder around.
[1] https://github.com/babashka/nbb
In Administrative Scripting with JuliaI think that’s a neat idea because I’ve been wanting something like this for several weeks :)
Please consider adding ClojureScript via nbb[0] as a language option.
[0] https://github.com/babashka/nbb
In Show HN: Chunk – Code sandbox for back-end devsDirect links:
- https://github.com/borkdude/bebo
- https://github.com/babashka/nbb
- https://github.com/babashka/sci
In Show HN: Bebo – run Clojure scripts on DenoShow HN: Bebo – run Clojure scripts on Deno
Made this little thing: https://github.com/borkdude/bebo
In the spirit of deno it allows you to install a script from an https location but for Clojure(Script, .cljs).
Why would you use this? I love Clojure and I'd love to see it in more places than the JVM and browser. Maybe you do too.
It is similar to the idea of nbb which allows you to run .cljs scripts on Node.js via the SCI interpreter:
- https://github.com/babashka/nbb
- https://github.com/babashka/sci
I posted this project yesterday but forgot to add "Show HN"... I hope that is OK since I can't edit my previous message anymore.
48 points · Open discussionI recently found lq (logseq-query), it lets you run and manage queries against your logseq graph. Built using nbb (Clojure for Node.js)
https://github.com/cldwalker/logseq-query
https://github.com/babashka/nbb
In Logseq Raises $4.1M to Accelerate Growth of the New World Knowledge GraphThere's also NBB (Node Babashka) also by borkdude, which could also be a good option for serverless.
https://github.com/babashka/nbb
In Clojure DartI prefer to use nbb[0] for this, or babashka[1] when I need to use stuff specific to JVM.
[0]: https://github.com/babashka/nbb
[1]: https://babashka.org/
In Clojure isn’t for me (2020)Slides: https://speakerdeck.com/borkdude/nbb-at-london-clojurians-ma...
Github repo: https://github.com/babashka/nbb
In Nbb: Ad-hoc scripting for Clojure on Node.jsNbb: Ad-hoc CLJS scripting on Node.js using SCI
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