datascript VS babashka

Hi pests, I don't think the criticism in the comments gives a full picture.

I wrote about a particular flavor of datalog, in common use today. [1] [2]. The earliest representation I know, which matches the syntax of my essay, was in SICP [3]

There's another, more academic form of datalog, which looks a lot more like prolog. Both have lots of similarities: both systems have a set of facts and rules. Both systems have can take a partially filled fact or rule, and find all matching facts. The more academic flavors of Datalog are useful for general logic, and particularly powerful for recursive questions. The variant I showed is more tailed for database queries.

[1] https://github.com/tonsky/datascript

There is also datascript as a similar option.

What's the use case for relic? Sounds similar to https://github.com/tonsky/datascript ?

This look nice !

Datascript seems to be another Datalog engine (in memory only)

https://github.com/tonsky/datascript

Inspired by past work: LINQ, inline-python, crepe, DataScript, Riffle.

An in-memory database like Datascript may be worth looking into. Otherwise you could take an indexing approach: put all the data into one big map indexed by some unique key, and have a bunch of supplementary indexes that are updated on insertion.

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.