Lately I’ve been interested in learning security stuff. The majority of the community from security seems to agree that having a scripting language as a tool is really beneficial for penetration tests and so on. The two main languages that they point to is Python and Bash (is Bash the correct name? …

Ok I’ve just found out https://github.com/borkdude/babashka/blob/master/README.md I’m amazed

Yup, highly recommend babashka, also a shout out to Joker here: https://github.com/candid82/joker They both make scripting in Clojure viable. There’s also self-hosted ClojureScript as an option, you can use Lumo or Planck. https://github.com/anmonteiro/lumo and https://github.com/planck-repl/planck …

Many mean “a scripting language” as in “no compile cycle / quick to hack on”. In this sense the REPL is the ultimate scripting language… This said, I use Clojure (JVM) for all my scripting, and I ended up writing a library to wrap it: https://github.com/l3nz/cli-matic that you may find useful.

I’ve used lumo with good success. Planck seems nice too but Babashka appears to be quite the challenger in that arena recently.

I’ve been using lumo, but the cold start-up time still hurts (about 2 seconds-ish time). Other than that, using libraries is also a pain and I feel that I have to rely on the Javascript interop more often than usual because of that. Babashka seems really cool, want to try it because it seems to sol…

Ya, babashka and joker solves those issues. One thing I want to say, with babashka and joker, there are no libraries. You are limited to their included set of namespaces and functions. You can’t depend on additional Clojure libraries or Node libraries, etc. That said, they’re meant to be used more…

That being said, the number of useful namespaces included in Babashka is pretty impressive, and constantly growing…

I believe you can add pure Clojure libraries: https://github.com/borkdude/babashka#additional-namespaces

No you can’t. You can add babashka libraries, and you can do the same with joker, but you can’t add Clojure, Java, or ClojureScript, Node, etc., libraries. But the biggest need for libraries that you can’t write in babashka is for side effect and IO. Anything where you need to interact with the OS.…

My team’s been using Lumo for about a year. We translated all our shell scripts to it, and couldn’t be happier. We were already using Clojure for full stack apps, so moving our scripts to the same language was the logical next step. I think babashka is also an excellent option nowadays, and would pr…

Anyone used Clojure as Scripting language? Why not?

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mvarela May 6, 2020, 5:01am 19

Sure, the whole point of it is being a scritpting tool.