diff --git a/README.md b/README.md index 79f01a84..5fe355b2 100644 --- a/README.md +++ b/README.md @@ -4,7 +4,7 @@ [![Clojars Project](https://img.shields.io/clojars/v/borkdude/babashka.svg)](https://clojars.org/borkdude/babashka) [![cljdoc badge](https://cljdoc.org/badge/borkdude/babashka)](https://cljdoc.org/d/borkdude/babashka/CURRENT) -A sprinkle of Clojure for the command line. +A Clojure babushka for the grey areas of bash. ## Quickstart @@ -20,6 +20,10 @@ bb took 4ms. The sweet spot for babashka is executing Clojure snippets or scripts in the same space where you would use bash. +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. + Goals: * Fast startup / low latency. This is achieved by compiling to native using [GraalVM](https://github.com/oracle/graal).