sh VS babashka

* The shell itself is https://github.com/mvdan/sh, a bash-like command interpreter

https://github.com/mvdan/sh

And finally, checkbashisms if you intend on making pure posix scripts that are compatible with debian/ubuntu's dash. It is part of the debian's devscripts suite, but is often individually packaged in other distros.

> Also you can use the chat as a learning tool

Or you could learn from a guide written by people who have suffered decades of experience of the pitfalls of shell scripting and have shared their woes.

https://mywiki.wooledge.org/BashGuide

My bad, I completely screwed this up... the as of yet undiscussed project is:

https://github.com/mvdan/sh

(not shmfmt)

I support projects like this for purposes of exploration and practice. But don't expect people to use it when there are already well established projects out there like: https://github.com/mvdan/sh

There are also: - shfmt - sh - bash language server - bashate

I also like running shfmt over my shell scripts so they all look the same without me having to think about whitespace.

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.