Babashka – a sprinkle of Clojure for the command line
Native, fast starting Clojure interpreter for scripting - babashka/babashka
Babashka – a sprinkle of Clojure for the command line launched on August 12, 2019 with 6 votes, #1,078 of 3,185 launches that month and more than 50% of that year's launches. The site was still online in September 2026, 7 years on.
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Small Clojure Interpreter2019 · github.com · ▲143Configurable Clojure/Script interpreter suitable for scripting and Clojure DSLs - babashka/sci
I made a Clojure-like language in Go, boots in 7msMay 2026 · github.com · ▲292Let-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…
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