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@ -14,14 +14,16 @@ A Clojure [babushka](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Headscarf) for the grey areas
<a href="https://github.com/laheadle">@laheadle</a> on Clojurians Slack <a href="https://github.com/laheadle">@laheadle</a> on Clojurians Slack
</blockquote> </blockquote>
The sweet spot for babashka is executing Clojure expressions or scripts in the ## Introduction
same space where you would use Bash.
The main idea behind babashka is to leverage Clojure in places where you would
be using bash otherwise.
As one user described it: As one user described it:
> I’m quite at home in Bash most of the time, but there’s a substantial grey area of things that are too complicated to be simple in bash, but too simple to be worth writing a clj/s script for. Babashka really seems to hit the sweet spot for those cases. > I’m quite at home in Bash most of the time, but there’s a substantial grey area of things that are too complicated to be simple in bash, but too simple to be worth writing a clj/s script for. Babashka really seems to hit the sweet spot for those cases.
## Goals ### Goals
* Low latency Clojure scripting alternative to JVM Clojure. * Low latency Clojure scripting alternative to JVM Clojure.
* Easy installation: grab the self-contained binary and run. No JVM needed. * Easy installation: grab the self-contained binary and run. No JVM needed.
@ -36,7 +38,7 @@ As one user described it:
Also see the [slides](https://speakerdeck.com/borkdude/babashka-and-the-small-clojure-interpreter-at-clojured-2020) of the Babashka talk at ClojureD 2020 (video coming soon). Also see the [slides](https://speakerdeck.com/borkdude/babashka-and-the-small-clojure-interpreter-at-clojured-2020) of the Babashka talk at ClojureD 2020 (video coming soon).
## Non-goals ### Non-goals
* Performance<sup>1<sup> * Performance<sup>1<sup>
* Provide a mixed Clojure/Bash DSL (see portability). * Provide a mixed Clojure/Bash DSL (see portability).
@ -50,7 +52,10 @@ may be a better fit, since the performance of Clojure on the JVM outweighs its
startup time penalty. Read more about the differences with Clojure startup time penalty. Read more about the differences with Clojure
[here](#differences-with-clojure). [here](#differences-with-clojure).
Watch the talk:
### Talk
To get an overview of babashka, you can watch this talk:
[![Babashka at ClojureD 2020](https://img.youtube.com/vi/Nw8aN-nrdEk/0.jpg)](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nw8aN-nrdEk) [![Babashka at ClojureD 2020](https://img.youtube.com/vi/Nw8aN-nrdEk/0.jpg)](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nw8aN-nrdEk)