alt Hacker NewsIt's platform-dependent isn't it? Otherwise, the practical differences between Lisp dialects are negligible. For me writing either in Janet or Fennel or Clojure feels almost like writing in the same language.
Babashka has replaced bash-scripting for me. I don't hate Bash, but why would I ever choose to use a language that has no true REPL, if I don't have to? bb is pretty much Clojure, which is the greatest choice if you're dealing with data - any data. Clojure is incredibly data-driven, which wins me over Janet. I also reach out to nbb whenever I need to deal with Node. e.g. scraping scripts driven by Playwright.
Janet is great when you need tiny runtime or you're dealing with subprocess-heavy scripts - Janet feels closer to actual shell syntax; or when you have to embed it to C/C++ program.
Fennel is indispensable for any Lua - mpv, Hammerspoon, AwesomeWM and Neovim configs, etc.
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True. But for things that they all can do, normal scripting (replacing bash/powershell, etc.), creating CLI and TUI apps, I would like to do a comparison of them. 1. which one is more pleasant to write 2. which one has the better echo system and tooling 3. performance benchmarks 4. portability
> Clojure is incredibly data-driven, which wins me over Janet.
I'm curious what differences you see? I've been all in on Janet, but barely used Clojure. What more data driven aspects does Clojure have .... offer? My mental model/assumption's always been that Janet's Clojure without JVM and (sadly) not so pure. I don't use any of Janet's C interop facilities. I'd love to know what I'm missing