Babashka news of January 2023

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Releases

New releases in the past month: 1.0.170 - 1.1.173 Release highlights:

• Support for data_readers.clj(c)
• Include http-client as built-in library
• Compatibility with clojure.tools.namespace.repl/refresh
• Compatibility with clojure.java.classpath (and other libraries which rely on java.class.path and RT/baseLoader)
• Compatibility with eftest test runner (see demo)
• Compatibility with cljfmt
• Support for *loaded-libs* and (loaded-libs)
• Support add-watch on vars (which adds compatibility with potemkin.namespaces)
• BREAKING: make printing of script results explicit with --prn

Events

• Babashka Workshop at ClojureStream with Rahul De
• Blambda! The sound of Babashka and Lambda colliding: sthlm.clj (Stockholm, Sweden)

Articles

One new book this month:

• Babooka: write command line Clojure by Daniel Higginbotham

and several blog posts:

• Blambda analyses sites by Josh Glover
• Babashka: How GraalVM Helped Create a Fast-Starting Scripting Environment for Clojure in Japanese
• The wizard of HOP - How we built the web based HOP CLI Settings Editor using Babashka and Scittle by Bingen Galartza
• Simple TUIs with Babashka and Gum by Rattlin.blog
• Babashka And Dialog Part Ii: Announcing The Bb-Dialog Library by A.C. Danvers
• Re-Writing a GlobalProtect OpenConnect VPN Connect script in Babashka by Tory Anderson

Projects

Projects that were new, had updates or were made compatible with babashka:

• asdf-babashka: babashka plugin for the asdf version manager
• babashka-htmx-todoapp: Quick example of a todo list SPA using Babashka and HTMX
• bblgum: An extremely tiny and simple wrapper around charmbracelet/gum
• bb-dialog: A simple wrapper library for working with dialog from Babashka
• carve: Remove unused Clojure vars
• chr: native commands history report for the default terminal users
• clj-kondo-bb: Invoke clj-kondo from babashka scripts!
• cljfmt: A tool for formatting Clojure code
• drepl: Node JS dependency-repl. The node repl you already know with easy library installations
• instaparse-bb: Wrapper library aroud pod-babashka-instaparse
• lein2deps: Lein project.clj to deps.edn converter
• neil: A CLI to add common aliases and features to deps.edn-based projects
• obsidian-babashka: Run Obsidian Clojure(Script) codeblocks in Babashka
• pod-babashka-buddy: A pod around buddy core (Cryptographic Api for Clojure)
• quickblog: Light-weight static blog engine for Clojure and babashka
• solenoid: A small clojure tool for making little control UIs while using the REPL!
• tools.bbuild: babashka version of tools.build
• weather: command line util for grabbing current weather for a city using OpenWeather API

Published: 2023-02-05

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