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Configurable Clojure/Script interpreter suitable for scripting and Clojure DSLs

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Configurable Clojure/Script interpreter suitable for scripting and Clojure DSLs

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Observed mentions: 2019-08-11 19:24:58 UTC to 2026-06-03 15:27:07 UTC.

02462019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 3 mentions; 2 submissions, 1 comments20192020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 5 mentions; 1 submissions, 4 comments2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 4 mentions; 0 submissions, 4 comments2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 7 mentions; 1 submissions, 6 comments20222023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 2 mentions; 1 submissions, 1 comments2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2027-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments. Incomplete calendar period.2026*

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20192019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC321
20202020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC514
20212021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC404
20222022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC716
20232023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC211
20242024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
20252025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
2026 (partial)2026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2027-01-01 00:00:00 UTC101

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Borkdude·Jul 3, 2022Submission

Show 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.
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Examples of Clojure projects that compile to native: - babashka (https://github.com/babashka/babashka) - clj-kondo (https://github.com/clj-kondo/clj-kondo) - jet (https://github.com/borkdude/jet) SCI (https://github.com/babashka/sci) is a Clojure interpreter that allows you to evaluate Clojure code even inside of the final native binary and is used in all of the above projects. Feel free to bug me with questions in the graalvm channel on Clojurians Slack.
In GraalVM 22.1: Developer experience improvements, Apple Silicon builds, and more
> I just with there was a Lisp like it that didn't run on the JVM. There are a few, with varying degrees of distance from the JVM and varying degrees of similarity to Clojure. - There's ClojureScript, which is Clojure transpiled to JavaScript. - See also Lumo (<https://github.com/anmonteiro/lumo>) and Planck (<https://planck-repl.org/guide-all.html>) - There's Babashka (https://github.com/babashka/babashka), which is a natively-compiled Clojure interpreter, implemented with the Small Clojure Interpreter (https://github.com/babashka/sci) and GraalVM for native compilation. - There's Joker (https://github.com/candid82/joker) with a similar mission to Babashka, but commonly used as a linter. - There's ClojureCLR (https://groups.google.com/g/clojure-clr) on the Common Language Runtime. - There's Cloture (https://github.com/ruricolist/clot
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ure), which is Clojure in Common Lisp. - There's Clojerl (https://www.clojerl.org/), which is Clojure for the Erlang VM. - There's Pixie (https://blog.goodstuff.im/pixie), with Clojure syntax, but compiling to native. - There's Ferret (<https://github.com/nakkaya/ferret>) which is Clojure transpiled to C++11. - There are some Lisps that have borrowed Clojure's syntax: - Janet <https://janet-lang.org/> - Carp <https://github.com/carp-lang/Carp> There are a variety of other Lisp-like languages listed here: https://github.com/dundalek/awesome-lisp-languages Apologies for the formatting.
In Differences with other Lisps
My blog/homepage is built using: - Gatsby.js static site generator framework - Posts written as md or mdx (markdown with jsx support) - Github Actions to build the site - Published to and served by Cloudflare workers - Uses [sci](https://github.com/borkdude/sci) and ClojureScript to add a live Clojure REPL component that can be used in blog posts - Tailwindcss is used for styling via emotion css-in-js and a tailwind plugin. The setup mostly works ok, but as always with the JavaScript community the amount of breaking changes can be a bit taxing. Because Gatsby handles static site generation the blog works without JavaScript enabled for those that only want to access the static content.
In Ask HN: What novel tools are you using to write web sites/apps?
fleck is "Clojure-like" and is bash without some of the important semantics of Clojure. Babashka is using "Small Clojure Interpreter" (https://github.com/borkdude/sci) which is trying it's best to be as much like Clojure as possible. Might not be a good idea to use something that can't make the same claim, if your point is to learn Clojure. I realize now that fleck (https://github.com/chr15m/flk) also doesn't even do destructuring and more. Finally the README in the bottom has "You might also be thinking of babashka which is a bare-metal solution using real Clojure". Babashka is also not slow but rather fast (in startup time).
In A pure Bash Clojure-ish CI pipeline
I wrote a Rust / tree-sitter program to detect reify usage in Clojure code a while ago: https://github.com/borkdude/analyze-reify (partially for learning Rust but also performance is really nice). I wanted to extend this to more advanced patterns and do it in Clojure itself, because that's what I'm most productive with. The reason I wanted to know more about this specific pattern is to answer the question if it's relevant enough for scripting. If so, I should probably support that in my Clojure interpreter (https://github.com/borkdude/sci) which is used in babashka (https://github.com/borkdude/babashka), a fast starting scripting environment for Clojure. After seeing Grape (https://github.com/bfontaine/grape) I connected the dots and figured I could do this using clojure.spec. I usually hang out on Clojurians Slack (channels: babashka, sc
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i, clj-kondo, clojure, off-topic).
In Show HN: Grasp – grep Clojure code using clojure.spec regexes

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