Joker is a small interpreted dialect of Clojure written in Go

Joker is a small interpreted dialect of Clojure written in Go(joker-lang.org)

69 points by gstipi 2 years ago | 8 comments

orestis 2 years ago |

FYI joker these days is completely replaced by Babashka.

dang 2 years ago | |

Some discussions about that in case anyone is interested:

Babashka Babooka: Write Command-Line Clojure - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34261010 - Jan 2023 (14 comments)

Babashka is a fast-starting scripting environment for Clojure - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33909241 - Dec 2022 (42 comments)

Babashka Clojure nREPL as a system interface - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33761877 - Nov 2022 (23 comments)

Clojure Scripting on Node.js - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32339979 - Aug 2022 (33 comments)

Ad-hoc ClojureScript scripting of Mac applications - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29779353 - Jan 2022 (8 comments)

Replacing my Octopress blog with 200 lines of Babashka - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28982952 - Oct 2021 (27 comments)

Using Clojure in the command line with Babashka - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24353476 - Sept 2020 (36 comments)

Babashka: A quick example - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22382381 - Feb 2020 (16 comments)

Babashka – A Clojure for the grey areas of Bash - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22254793 - Feb 2020 (65 comments)

networked 2 years ago | |

I have a use case for Joker. Babashka doesn't support *BSD because GraalVM doesn't, so on *BSD your options are Joker and https://github.com/babashka/nbb. I wrote a short comment comparing them: https://github.com/babashka/babashka/issues/721#issuecomment....

benatkin 2 years ago | | |

I'm guessing running GraalVM on top of WASM would be a bad idea as well, but it seems Joker would work.

phaedryx 2 years ago |

I thought the naming of "clojure" was brilliant; it is unique to search on and memorable. I don't understand why other languages aren't named using the same principles, especially the ones that are clojure-related.

victorbjorklund 2 years ago | |

Oh yea. When I played around with go i hated that so much showed up when you just wrote go. And sure you can search for golang instead but alot of articles etc just write go.

Paul-Craft 2 years ago | | |

> alot of articles etc just write go.

Not the ones that want to be found.

dang 2 years ago |

Joker: A small interpreted dialect of Clojure written in Go - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28397893 - Sept 2021 (71 comments)

Clojure dialect written in Go (Joker) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19510165 - March 2019 (1 comment)

Joker: Clojure-like language on GoLang that's really fast - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18234088 - Oct 2018 (4 comments)