Clojure Scripting on Node.js

Although I have not used nbb, babashka itself has been super useful for avoiding the slower JVM startup time while still using Clojure to automate some tasks at the command line.<p>Yet, despite many projects using bb + a bb.edn tasks file as a replacement for Make, I find myself still reaching for Make, out of familiarity at least, perhaps to avoid the extra dependency on bb itself?

Author here. Ask me anything on nbb.

I love babashka but always find nbb scripts hard because everything returns a promise which makes the normal REPL workflow tricky.. maybe I’m doing it wrong though

Just as an FYI for the interested, there is a self-hosted version of clojurescript now, it enables macros in the same runtime with some caveats but the main downside (AFAIK) is increased bundle size, which is less relevant for node.js.

I am not the developer of this library. I just have been using it for a small project and thought others might find it interesting as well.

What is this? What is Clojure and why do you need it in node?

Is this similar to Lumo (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;anmonteiro&#x2F;lumo" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;anmonteiro&#x2F;lumo</a>)? I would assume Lumo has a faster start time since it boots from a V8 snapshot, but otherwise I&#x27;d assume the two projects are similar (except that, of course, lumo is EOL)

If anyone is interested in mixing other languages in node, check out this silly little library I threw together: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.npmjs.com&#x2F;package&#x2F;polyglot-tag" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.npmjs.com&#x2F;package&#x2F;polyglot-tag</a><p>Embed any scripting language in a Node.js template literal!