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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/
get-started-with-clojure
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Clojure from a Schemer's Perspective (2021)
Yep your experience is (sadly) not even remotely unusual, and Cognitect have repeatedly demonstrated that they don’t care about this issue (which will come back to bite them as the community stagnates).
The “best” advice I have for Clojure beginners is to follow this guide: https://calva.io/get-started-with-clojure/, which will ultimately land you in a solid VSCode-based IDE environment for Clojure.
That’s not how I personally like to approach a new language mind you (REPL from the command line plz), but I’ve pretty much given up trying to get Clojure beginners started there as there are just too many moving parts that can go wrong, and unjustifiable frictions.
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I can't get into clojure?
https://calva.io/get-started-with-clojure/ (Do this first) https://calva.io/getting-started/
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Janet Programming Language
You're 2 clicks away from having a fully-featured clojure environment, thanks to Calva (vscode clojure plugin) running in the browser:
- click here[0]
- click on SSO provider
More information here[1]. And of course, you might also simply use the Calva plugin with VSCode. That's a bit more than 2 clicks, maybe 5?
[0] https://gitpod.io/#https://github.com/PEZ/get-started-with-c...
What are some alternatives?
Fennel - Lua Lisp Language
babashka - Native, fast starting Clojure interpreter for scripting
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.
kaboom.js - 💥 JavaScript game library
fennel-cljlib - Port of clojure.core namespace to Fennel (mirror)
zig - General-purpose programming language and toolchain for maintaining robust, optimal, and reusable software.
rlua - High level Lua bindings to Rust
joker - Small Clojure interpreter, linter and formatter.
moodycamel - A fast multi-producer, multi-consumer lock-free concurrent queue for C++11
Stride Game Engine - Stride Game Engine (formerly Xenko)