Babashka Babooka: Write Command-Line Clojure

Post by kees_ » Thu, Jan 05, 2023, 8:16 PM UTC

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escherize wrote: post #3

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Babashka has saved me a lot of time. I actually think it is the quickest and easiest way to get started learning Clojure, to a point. No startup time didn't seem like a big deal for my workflow until I got instant startup time when running script, and starting repls -- The kind of repl where you can inspect and act on anything in your program. Babashka tasks is fantastic too! Multi-threaded, simple, and very few surp…

> actually think it is the quickest and easiest way to get started learning Clojure, to a point. That's great, I was just checking out Clojure a few hours ago and now have it installed. Any other cool blogs and resources the fine folks on here could recommend.

Post by [deleted] » Thu, Jan 05, 2023, 8:41 PM UTC

mjdowney wrote: post #6

I've really enjoyed Babashka lately. Most recently, I ported a script from Bash which gets around WiFi captive portals and was able to add some features and even unit tests. Super fun and would have been hard for me to do in Bash! https://gist.github.com/matthewdowney/dab4d12d001152dec473e3...

Post by mark_l_watson » Fri, Jan 06, 2023, 2:59 PM UTC

jb1991 wrote: post #4

If you work on Mac, there are a lot of great ways these days to script in a better language than Bash. Here's how to write easy scripts in Swift, without learning a new language: https://rderik.com/blog/using-swift-for-scripting/#our-first...