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Scripting in Clojure on Node.js using SCI

22 mentions on Hacker News by 13 people: 7 stories, 15 comments · first 2021-08-01 · latest 2026-06-03

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  1. …you just add a <script> and you're off to the races. There's also nbb if you're targeting node https://github.com/babashka/nbb
    comment by JBiserkov · 2026-06-03 · in My thoughts after using Clojure for about a month
  2. nbb is is babashka for node - https://github.com/babashka/nbb babashka was created to mitigate JVM slow startup. It's great for system scripting, automation, etc., basically a lightweight Clojure. I think any programmer would benefit from…
    comment by iLemming · 2024-10-17 · in Ask HN: If you were rewriting Emacs from scratch, what would you do differently?
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    story by tosh · 2024-06-02 · 0 comments
  4. …clojure interpreter might be a good fit, if you're ok with a lisp. It's mature and fully sandboxed. https://github.com/babashka/nbb
    comment by Nihilartikel · 2023-09-09 · in Embeddable Common Lisp 23.9.9
  5. …Joker. Babashka doesn't support *BSD because GraalVM doesn't, so on *BSD your options are Joker and https://github.com/babashka/nbb . I wrote a short comment comparing them: https://github.com/babashka/babashka/issues/721#issuecomment... .
    comment by networked · 2023-05-29 · in Joker is a small interpreted dialect of Clojure written in Go
  6. …argument parsing) though, since then you need the dreaded node_modules folder around. [1] https://github.com/babashka/nbb
    comment by koito17 · 2023-04-07 · in Administrative Scripting with Julia
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    story by reil_convnet · 2022-08-04 · 33 comments
  8. …this for several weeks :) Please consider adding ClojureScript via nbb[0] as a language option. [0] https://github.com/babashka/nbb
    comment by nlitened · 2022-07-29 · in Show HN: Chunk – Code sandbox for back-end devs
  9. Direct links: - https://github.com/borkdude/bebo - https://github.com/babashka/nbb - https://github.com/babashka/sci
    comment by Borkdude · 2022-07-03 · in Show HN: Bebo – run Clojure scripts on Deno
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    story by Borkdude · 2022-07-03 · 2 comments
  11. …your logseq graph. Built using nbb (Clojure for Node.js) https://github.com/cldwalker/logseq-query https://github.com/babashka/nbb
    comment by tosh · 2022-05-08 · in Logseq Raises $4.1M to Accelerate Growth of the New World Knowledge Graph
  12. There's also NBB (Node Babashka) also by borkdude, which could also be a good option for serverless. https://github.com/babashka/nbb
    comment by dekelpilli · 2022-04-18 · in Clojure Dart
  13. I prefer to use nbb[0] for this, or babashka[1] when I need to use stuff specific to JVM. [0]: https://github.com/babashka/nbb [1]: https://babashka.org/
    comment by crispyalmond · 2022-04-15 · in Clojure isn’t for me (2020)
  14. Slides: https://speakerdeck.com/borkdude/nbb-at-london-clojurians-ma... Github repo: https://github.com/babashka/nbb
    comment by Borkdude · 2022-03-23 · in Nbb: Ad-hoc scripting for Clojure on Node.js
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    story by tosh · 2022-03-16 · 1 comment
  16. …and want to do something with it. There is a new "(Not)Babashka" but built on ClojureScript: https://github.com/borkdude/nbb that might be interesting as well. I have found this video by James Trunk: https://youtu.be/C-kF25fWTO8?t=848 to…
    comment by kaliszad · 2021-10-14 · in What I wish I knew when learning F#
  17. …but it already works for gitlibs. Here is an example of running HoneySQL from source in nbb: https://github.com/borkdude/nbb#classpath . Just let me know if something doesn't work out (on Slack or Github issues/discussions).
    comment by Borkdude · 2021-09-20 · in Create ad-hoc ClojureScript scripts on Node.js with nbb
  18. …of imperative, side-effecting stuff and dealing constantly with mutable APIs. I love lisp but... https://github.com/borkdude/nbb/blob/main/examples/puppeteer... "Look how cool I'm, I downloaded this thing just to add parenthesis to my JS…
    comment by ithrow · 2021-09-20 · in Create ad-hoc ClojureScript scripts on Node.js with nbb
  19. …(which should be safe since nbb doesn't depend on any other node libraries). Notes on that here: https://github.com/borkdude/nbb#startup-time
    comment by Borkdude · 2021-09-20 · in Create ad-hoc ClojureScript scripts on Node.js with nbb
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    story by tosh · 2021-09-19 · 0 comments
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    story by Borkdude · 2021-09-19 · 31 comments
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    Show HN: nbb - run a ClojureScript script on Node without a Clojure build tool
    story by Borkdude · 2021-08-01 · 1 comment