BLblain_the_train·Jul 31, 2022
clojure can turn a data api into a first class clojure library with relatively less effort.
e.g https://github.com/cognitect-labs/aws-api
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4 sourcesYou should take Alex's words contextually, and with a grain of salt. You can easily see his commits in this project, for example: https://github.com/cognitect-labs/aws-api
In Clojure needs a RailsRelated to this, there's an AWS SDK for Clojure [0] (created by the same people who are behind Clojure), which is generated from the AWS specs themselves. Carmine, a popular Clojure library for Redis does something very similar. There's also a library for generating SDKs from Swagger specs [2]. I implemented a similar solution (generating Python bindings for some of our APIs from Postman exports), and it was super simple, really.
I suspect doing the same in CL would be similarly simple.
[0] https://github.com/cognitect-labs/aws-api
[1] https://github.com/ptaoussanis/carmine
[2] https://github.com/oliyh/martian
In Why Lisp? (2015)Ah Chicken.
I’ve commented on Chicken before. While I might prefer some of the language choices of Racket, Chicken has just such a fantastic deployment story. You can whip up a quick little script in Chicken and run it through “csc” and voila! You have a compiled executable.
Given how easy the C FFI is, the package collection tends to have pretty decent coverage of functionality you might want. In general I’ve found that most of the things I’ve gone looking for have been pretty easy to find.
The ability to compile little self-contained blazing fast startup time executables immediately makes me think of writing serverless / Lambda functions in Chicken. Unfortunately, there isn’t yet a lot of cloud SDK support for scheme yet, but maybe I’ll look at replicating Cognitect’s (and others’) autogenerated AWS SDK for Clojure some rainy weekend (h
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