Welcome reader! This is a book about scripting with Clojure and babashka. Clojure is a functional, dynamic programming language from the Lisp family which runs on the JVM. Babashka is a scripting environment made with Clojure, compiled to native with GraalVM. The primary benefits of using babashka for scripting compared to the JVM are fast startup time and low memory consumption. Babashka comes with batteries included and packs libraries like clojure.tools.cli for parsing command line arguments and cheshire for working with JSON. Moreover, it can be installed just by downloading a self-contained binary.
Clojure is a robust, practical, and fast programming language with a set of useful features that together form a simple, coherent, and powerful tool.
A programming language that scales with you: from small scripts to large multiplatform applications.
