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babashka
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A Tour of Lisps
It also gives you access to Babashka if you want Clojure for other use-cases where start-up time is an issue
- Babashka: Fast native Clojure scripting runtime
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What's the value proposition of meta circular interpreters?
I've tried researching this myself and can't find too much. There's this project metaes which is an mci for JS, and there's the SCI module of the Clojure babashka project, but that's about it. I also saw Triska's video on mci but it was pretty theoretical.
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Adding Dependencies on Clojure Project the Node Way: A Small Intro to neil CLI
Created by the same guy who created babashka which is a way to write bash scripts, node scripts, and even apple scripts using Clojure. A very proficient and influential developer in the Clojure community. This is how borkduke's neil helps us:
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Pure Bash Bible
Not what you asked for but there is Babashka for scripting in Clojure.
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Critique of Lazy Sequences in Clojure
Clojure's lazy sequences by default are wonderful ergonomically, but it provides many ways to use strict evaluation if you want to. They aren't really a hassle either. I've been doing Clojure for the last few years and have a few grievances, but overall it's the most coherent, well thought out language I've used and I can't recommend it enough.
There is the issue of startup time with the JVM, but you can also do AOT compilation now so that really isn't a problem. Here are some other cool projects to look at if you're interested:
Malli: https://github.com/metosin/malli
Babashka: https://github.com/babashka/babashka
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Sharpscript: Lisp for Scripting
Being a Clojure addict, I guess I have to leave the obligatory link to Babashka too then: https://github.com/babashka/babashka (Native, fast starting Clojure interpreter for scripting)
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Rash – The Reckless Racket Shell
which is now on hiatus. babashka: https://babashka.org
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babashka not working - Fatal error: Failed to create the main Isolate. (code 8)
I just got Asahi installed and I want to start automating my system setup, which I do using babashka
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Getting started with lisp
Babashka https://github.com/babashka/babashka - a native implementation of Clojure which starts fast
janet
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Babashka: Fast native Clojure scripting runtime
I like Clojure, but I never had any good opportunities to use it other than for a few small hobby projects. It is unfortunate that it is so huge with tons of dependencies and no simpler native implementation. I started looking at various LISPs and Schemes to find something lighter to use instead and ended up settling for Janet that I think is Clojure-like enough to be comfortable to use, but in a small native binary with no dependencies and can be embedded in other native programs. I am sure for big, real, projects that Clojure makes more sense, but for my hobby projects and scripts I do not think I will install it again. I am still happy for the things I learned from learning Clojure. It was a real eye-opener for an old OO-programmer.
- Why Fennel?
- Embeddable Common Lisp 23.9.9
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Sharpscript: Lisp for Scripting
One might also check out Janet for quick scripting tasks.
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Red Programming Language
Thanks!
I thought about another multiplatform, homoiconic, highly compact language: https://janet-lang.org/ (takes 803 kb on my machine).
It has no types though.
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Systems Programming with Racket
Racket is great, and if you like it you might find Rash interesting:
Janet and Gerbil Scheme are also worth a look:
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fe: A tiny, embeddable language implemented in ANSI C
If this project interests you but is a bit more minimal than you need, the Janet language is a slightly-less but still pretty lightweight embeddable Lisp with a strong library and community: https://janet-lang.org/
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Sharing Saturday #461
Scripting language of choice for WWWW became Janet. Technically, it's Lisp. Raw Lisp still adds plenty of overhead, making it not much better than JSON. That's when WDL was born.
- Administrative Scripting with Julia
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Are there smaller Clojure-esque Lisps available ?
But you can try Janet for fun https://janet-lang.org/
What are some alternatives?
Fennel - Lua Lisp Language
get-started-with-clojure - Learn Clojure and Interactive Programming – Zero install
scheme-for-max - Max/MSP external for scripting and live coding Max with s7 Scheme Lisp
ferret - Ferret is a free software lisp implementation for real time embedded control systems.
malli - High-performance data-driven data specification library for Clojure/Script.
joker - Small Clojure interpreter, linter and formatter.
nbb - Scripting in Clojure on Node.js using SCI
kaboom.js - 💥 JavaScript game library
clojure-lsp - Clojure & ClojureScript Language Server (LSP) implementation
racket - The Racket repository
ShellCheck - ShellCheck, a static analysis tool for shell scripts
fennel-cljlib - Port of clojure.core namespace to Fennel (mirror)