clojure-scheme VS babashka

For me it's microcontrollers, however I've heard in spite of the unmaintained status, clojure-scheme[1] is very usable. It uses gambit to produce C-code you can compile anywhere.

https://github.com/takeoutweight/clojure-scheme

> But wouldn't it make more sense to first rewrite Clojure itself in some small/minimal scheme-y subset of Clojure

How about Scheme?: https://github.com/takeoutweight/clojure-scheme

Note that this project is unmaintained and the last updates are ~10 years old.

lokke seems to use Guile's tooling (compiler tower, to be specific) to compile clojure-esque code to objects understood by said Guile's tooling. This is a little different from Clojurescript's approach which use ClojureJVM to transpile to javascript. There was actually another Clojure to Scheme project that leverages Clojurescript JVM transpiler: https://github.com/takeoutweight/clojure-scheme - It targets Gambit scheme instead of Guile

It also gives you access to Babashka if you want Clojure for other use-cases where start-up time is an issue

https://babashka.org/

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.

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:

Not what you asked for but there is Babashka for scripting in Clojure.

https://github.com/babashka/babashka

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

Clerk: https://github.com/nextjournal/clerk

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)

which is now on hiatus. babashka: https://babashka.org

I've enjoyed babashka for scripting; which is close enough to clojure to allow using some/many libraries; but (probably) not for embedding.