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Small Clojure interpreter, linter and formatter.

22 mentions on Hacker News by 19 people: 2 stories, 20 comments · first 2017-02-17 · latest 2024-08-30

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  1. I like to bring up Joker ( https://github.com/candid82/joker ) whenever there is a discussion of some lisp that is fast and convenient. Clojure syntax implemented in Go. I'm not affiliated I just think it's brilliant. CEIL's example in…
    comment by lsh0 · 2024-08-30 · in CIEL Is an Extended Lisp
  2. A similar language is Joker ( https://github.com/candid82/joker ), Go based, Clojure syntax. I've been using it for years as a general purpose scripting language and Clojure code linter and formatter - it's exceptional. It doesn't…
    comment by lsh0 · 2024-07-17 · in Rye Language
  3. …[1] https://github.com/nukata/lisp-in-go [2] https://github.com/pixie-lang/pixie [3] https://github.com/candid82/joker (Clojure like) [4] https://janet-lang.org/ (more Clojure like than lisp like, but still brilliant and very polished )
    comment by rawoke083600 · 2022-07-15 · in Lisp in 99 lines of C and how to write one yourself [pdf]
  4. there is joker https://github.com/candid82/joker but you may as well use the small clojure interpreter instead
    comment by swlkr · 2022-04-06 · in Coast on Clojure
  5. Was there something about Joker [0] that you didn't find suitable? [0] - https://github.com/candid82/joker
    comment by escherize · 2022-03-03 · in Show HN: GFun – Lisp 4 Go
  6. > - There's Joker ( https://github.com/candid82/joker ) with a similar mission to Babashka, but commonly used as a linter. Joker is a Clojure interpreter, mostly used as a linter in the community but can be used as a runtime as well.
    comment by capableweb · 2021-11-03 · in Differences with other Lisps
  7. …( https://github.com/babashka/sci ) and GraalVM for native compilation. - There's Joker ( https://github.com/candid82/joker ) with a similar mission to Babashka, but commonly used as a linter. - There's ClojureCLR (…
    comment by naruhodo · 2021-11-03 · in Differences with other Lisps
  8. …unique Walmart-scale problems. One of the engineers on our team wrote an entire Clojure dialect ( https://github.com/candid82/joker/ ), and scripts written in that language now do a lot of heavy lifting of our own infrastructure. - A good…
    comment by bcarrell · 2020-10-01 · in Ask HN: Who is hiring? (October 2020)
  9. The latter was new to me. https://github.com/candid82/joker As a tentative but enthusiastic Lisper interested in Clojure but not Java, I like that Joker is implemented in Go, and its pragmatic approach (such as feature parity with Clojure…
    comment by lioeters · 2020-09-01 · in NewLisp
  10. …to build Clojure on top of Go (I worked on one) Do you have a link? The only one I'm aware of is https://github.com/candid82/joker . Believe it or not, this is relevant to an ongoing sabbatical project of my own. I'm grossly unfamiliar…
    comment by omginternets · 2020-06-04 · in A History of Clojure [pdf]
  11. …functions" Maybe take a look at Joker [0] to start. A Clojure interpreter written in Go. [0] https://github.com/candid82/joker
    comment by adamkl · 2020-06-04 · in A History of Clojure [pdf]
  12. …and getting paid for it⁶. ¹ https://dragan.rocks ² https://github.com/clj-python/libpython-clj ³ https://github.com/candid82/joker ⁴ https://github.com/scicloj/clojisr ⁵ https://github.com/clojerl/clojerl ⁶ https://bit.ly/3a3wxNH
    comment by iLemming · 2020-04-11 · in What's Next for Scala
  13. …a compile step, so it's not as nice for scripts. My favourite for scripting right now is Joker: https://github.com/candid82/joker Joker is a Clojure dialect which is interpreted, thus it starts super fast (but runs slower, but fast enough…
    comment by didibus · 2019-10-12 · in Larry Wall has approved renaming Perl 6 to Raku
  14. …if you wanted them to start faster, using ClojureScript takes you under 100ms. And using Joker ( https://github.com/candid82/joker ) takes you under 50ms. When I need even faster startup for scripts and also need performant runtime, I've…
    comment by didibus · 2019-08-25 · in Why Clojure?
  15. https://github.com/candid82/joker
    comment by andrenth · 2019-07-05 · in Ale – A Lisp Environment Written in Go
  16. Clojure in go: https://github.com/candid82/joker
    comment by lincpa · 2019-05-25 · in Show HN: G-Fu – a pragmatic Lisp embedded in Go
  17. …unique Walmart-scale problems. One of the engineers on our team wrote an entire Clojure dialect ( https://github.com/candid82/joker/ ), and scripts written in that language now do a lot of heavy lifting of our own infrastructure. - A good…
    comment by bcarrell · 2019-04-02 · in Ask HN: Who is hiring? (April 2019)
  18. You might be interested in joker (a small Clojure interpreter and linter written in Go) https://github.com/candid82/joker
    comment by vikeri · 2018-12-18 · in Clojure 1.10 release
  19. …tool could do. Has anyone here used such tools? A quick Google turned up these options: - Lint: https://github.com/candid82/joker - Gofmt: https://github.com/pesterhazy/boot-fmt
    comment by christophilus · 2017-05-25 · in Readable Clojure
  20. Another one https://github.com/candid82/joker
    comment by velkyel · 2017-02-17 · in Curated list of Clojure-like programming languages