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24 alternatives to ClavaScript: a ClojureScript syntax to JavaScript compiler

Light-weight ClojureScript dialect. Contribute to squint-cljs/squint development by creating an account on GitHub.

ClavaScript is a compiler that converts ClojureScript syntax into JavaScript. It enables developers familiar with Clojure's functional programming style to write code that runs in JavaScript environments. The tool… Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. ClavaScript: a ClojureScript syntax to JavaScript compiler launched in 2022; newer entries below may have overtaken it.

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    A private, browser-only ClojureScript playground powered by the self-hosted compiler.

    2016 · cljsfiddle.com · its alternatives →

  2. 2CP
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    Configurable Clojure/Script interpreter suitable for scripting and Clojure DSLs - babashka/sci

    2019 · github.com · its alternatives →

  4. 4TI
  5. 5IG
  6. 6JS

    Together with PEZ (Peter Strömberg) I made a VSCode extension that allows you to script VSCode using Clojure (interpreted CLJS). The repo: https://github.com/BetterThanTomorrow/joyride Introductory video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V1oTf-1EchU See examples directory: https://github.com/BetterThanTomorrow/joyride/tree/master/ex... See animated gifs and news on Twitter: https://twitter.com/hashtag/vsjoyride?src=hashtag_click&f=li...

    2022 · its alternatives →

  7. 7HN

    I have ported "The Fullstack Tutorial for GraphQL" series, https://www.howtographql.com/, from Javascript to Clojure/script. Blog post: https://promesante.github.io/2019/08/14/clojure_graphql_full... Source code GitHub repo: https://github.com/promesante/hn-clj-pedestal-re-frame Suggestions and corrections, more than welcome.

    2019 · its alternatives →

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    Indentation-based syntax for Clojure. Contribute to ilevd/cwp development by creating an account on GitHub.

    2024 · github.com · its alternatives →

  9. 9MI

    An interactive book introducing programming with ClojureScript

    2017 · langintro.com · its alternatives →

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    Run a ClojureScript REPL within Microsoft Excel. Contribute to cfelde/cljs4excel development by creating an account on GitHub.

    2015 · github.com · its alternatives →

  11. 11CP

    Hi HN! 2d spritesheets for game development are often distributed as a PNG image, sometimes with a separate JSON or XML metadata document describing the layout, including any animation sequences within the sheet. Sometimes there is no metadata document and you have to work it out and manually write custom code to chop up the spritesheet and reference the sprites you want. I think it would be good if it became standard practice to distribute spritesheet PNGs with the metadata inline inside a PNG "chunk" so the whole thing is self-contained. That way artists can just distribute one file, and…

    2019 · mccormick.cx · its alternatives →

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    Hi friends, I started casually working on scrapscript in 2015. I built a few compilers over the years to test out various ideas/implementations, and I think I'm finally happy with the overall design. The code is not public yet. Email me at [email protected] if you're interested in joining the core team later this year. Let me know if you have any questions or feedback :)

    2023 · scrapscript.org · its alternatives →

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    Let-go is a Clojure-like language (~90% compatible with JVM Clojure) written in pure Go. It ships as a ~10MB static binary and cold boots in ~7ms - that's about 50x faster than JVM and 3x faster than Babashka. It has decent throughput on algorithmic workloads - within ballpark of the GraalVM-backed sci. I started this project in 2021 as an elaborate practical joke: I wanted to have an excuse for writing Clojure while pretending to write Go. Jokes aside, it turned out to be pretty decent: it feels like real Clojure, it has an nREPL server (supported in Calva, CIDER, etc.), it's easily…

    May 2026 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    A Clojure game library. Contribute to oakes/play-clj development by creating an account on GitHub.

    2014 · github.com · its alternatives →

  15. 15CI
  16. 16RC
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  18. 18IC

    2015 · blog.fikesfarm.com · its alternatives →

  19. 19CT
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    SaaS buying and decision platform. Contribute to Vetd-Inc/vetd-app development by creating an account on GitHub.

    2020 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    clojure.spec for Javascript. Contribute to prayerslayer/js.spec development by creating an account on GitHub.

    2016 · github.com · its alternatives →

  22. 22JP
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    We've been building Crust (https://crustjs.com/), a TypeScript-first, Bun-native CLI framework with zero dependencies. It's been powering our core product internally for a while, and we're now open-sourcing it. The problem we kept running into: existing CLI frameworks in the JS ecosystem are either minimal arg parsers where you wire everything yourself, or heavyweight frameworks with large dependency trees and Node-era assumptions. We wanted something in between. What Crust does differently: - Full type inference from definitions — args and flags are inferred automatically. No…

    Mar 2026 · github.com · its alternatives →

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