Dev tools · alternatives · 2026

Joyride is a VSCode extension that enables users to script the editor using Clojure, an interpreted ClojureScript language. Designed for developers familiar with Lisp-style programming, it allows customization and… Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. Joyride: script VSCode like Emacs but using Clojure launched in 2022; newer entries below may have overtaken it.

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   Joy – a Go to JavaScript compiler▲201

   Matt Mueller's personal website for sharing what I've learned about programming, design, entrepreneurship and life.

   2017 · mat.tm · its alternatives →

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   I made a CLI tool to create web extensions with no build configuration▲381

   Hello HN! I'm the creator and solo developer of Extension.js, a development tool for browser extensions with built-in support for TypeScript, WebAssembly, React, and modern JavaScript. Developers use it to spend less time configuring the compilation config or learning new frameworks and more time actually writing code. Most projects similar to Extension.js rely on some sort of abstraction or configuration to get started, making the initial development process slow given the extra learning curve and setup guidelines. By using Extension.js, adding the package to your npm scripts is all it…

   2024 · github.com · its alternatives →

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   Spaghettify – A VSCode Extension to make your code worse with AI▲323

   Recently, I saw Github Next Code Brushes (https://githubnext.com/projects/code-brushes) which is a VSCode extension that can use AI to do things like make your code more readable, add types, etc. This inspired me: what if there was an extension that could use AI to make your code worse as well? Meet Spaghettify. An extension I developed that can do things like: - Obscure your code - Introduce a bug - Make the variable names way too descriptive - Use nonsymmetrical whitespace - Add irrelevant/rambling comments - Document the code with emoji - Document the code in any…

   2023 · spaghettify.dev · its alternatives →

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   My Interactive ClojureScript book▲134

   An interactive book introducing programming with ClojureScript

   2017 · langintro.com · its alternatives →

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   React Vscode CLI▲77

   React VSCode framework to build custom extensions easily

   2023 · npmjs.com · its alternatives →

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   CLJS Fiddle – ClojureScript▲82

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

   2016 · cljsfiddle.com · its alternatives →

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   Interactive guide to Tetris in ClojureScript▲157

   2014 · shaunlebron.com · its alternatives →

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   ClojureScript REPL within Excel▲83

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

   2015 · github.com · its alternatives →

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   Chardin.js, beautiful instructions for apps▲203

   2013 · heelhook.github.com · its alternatives →

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    CodeSwing – A CodePen-like interactive playground, built into VS Code▲159

    VS Code extension for building web applications ("swings") using a interactive and editor-integrated coding environment - lostintangent/codeswing

    2020 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    inlang VSCode Extension (Beta)▲100

    Extension for i18n codebases making developers life's easier

    2023 · inlang.com · its alternatives →

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    Bhvr, a Bun and Hono and Vite and React Starter▲128

    Hey all! I've been using this stack personally for a while now and decided to automate it a bit by turning it into a template I can reuse. Hope others might find it helpful!

    2025 · bhvr.dev · its alternatives →

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    CodeCafé – A real-time collaborative code editor in the browser▲81

    Hey guys! I’ve been working on a web app called CodeCafé—a collaborative, browser-based code editor inspired by VS Code and Replit, but with no downloads, no sign-up, and zero setup. You just open the link and start coding—together. The frontend is built with React and TypeScript, and the backend runs on Java with Spring Boot, which handles real-time editing via WebSockets. For syncing changes, I’m using Redis along with a custom Operational Transformation system (no third-party libraries!!!). The idea came after I found out a local summer school was teaching coding using Google Docs (yes,…

    2025 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Clojure parser and core library in JavaScript, live on CodeCombat▲57

    2014 · vickychijwani.github.io · its alternatives →

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    TextBin▲104

    A privacy focused open source alternative to paste bin

    2024 · marketplace.visualstudio.com · its alternatives →

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    Codewich – A live-updating TypeScript/CSS/HTML playground▲114

    Create and share simple web demos using TypeScript, CSS, and HTML. Prototype new ideas quickly.

    2017 · codewich.com · its alternatives →

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    Bebo – run Clojure scripts on Deno▲48

    Made this little thing: https://github.com/borkdude/bebo In the spirit of deno it allows you to install a script from an https location but for Clojure(Script, .cljs). Why would you use this? I love Clojure and I'd love to see it in more places than the JVM and browser. Maybe you do too. It is similar to the idea of nbb which allows you to run .cljs scripts on Node.js via the SCI interpreter: - https://github.com/babashka/nbb - https://github.com/babashka/sci I posted this project yesterday but forgot to add "Show HN"... I hope that…

    2022 · its alternatives →

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    Crust – A CLI framework for TypeScript and Bun▲95

    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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    ClavaScript: a ClojureScript syntax to JavaScript compiler▲24

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

    2022 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    run ClojureScript expressions in script tags▲13

    2021 · borkdude.github.io · its alternatives →

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    iOS ClojureScript REPL▲12

    2015 · blog.fikesfarm.com · its alternatives →

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    AI Code Commenter by Quod AI▲75

    VSCode extension to generate comments for code snippets.

    2021 · marketplace.visualstudio.com · its alternatives →

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    TryCode▲72

    Realtime collaborative code editor (beta)

    2019 · trycode.pw · its alternatives →

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    Marimo VS Code extension – Python notebooks built on LSP and uv▲65

    Hi HN! We're excited to release our VS Code/Cursor extension for marimo [1], an open-source, reactive Python notebook. This extension provides a native experience for working with marimo notebooks, a long-requested feature that we’ve worked hard to get right. An LSP-first architecture The core of our extension is a marimo notebook language server (marimo-lsp [2]). As far as we know, it’s the first notebook runtime to take this approach. The Language Server Protocol (LSP) [3] offers a small but important set of notebook-related capabilities that we use for document and kernel syncing;…

    Nov 2025 · github.com · its alternatives →

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