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ClojureScript Gets Async/Await

Borkdude — Fri, 08 May 2026 07:04:24 +0000

Article URL: https://clojurescript.org/news/2026-05-07-release

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48059662

Points: 120

# Comments: 37

New comment by Borkdude in "Fast starting Clojure runtime built with GraalVM native-image and Crema"

Borkdude — Mon, 23 Feb 2026 08:49:47 +0000

Author here. This is an experiment to run the Clojure compiler in a GraalVM native-image with Crema enabled. Crema is a new way to dynamically load JVM bytecode in a native-image using an interpreter.

More info about Crema: https://github.com/oracle/graal/issues/11327

I'm also the author of babashka, a native fast-starting scripting tool for Clojure. For me it's interesting to contrast both approaches and learn more about the pros/cons of each.

New comment by Borkdude in "Babashka 1.12.215: Revenge of the TUIs"

Borkdude — Tue, 17 Feb 2026 14:25:18 +0000

Thanks :)

New comment by Borkdude in "Babashka 1.12.215: Revenge of the TUIs"

Borkdude — Tue, 17 Feb 2026 11:18:36 +0000

Author here. Babashka is a native Clojure interpreter for scripting, it starts in ~5-20ms instead of the usual JVM startup. This release adds JLine3 for building TUIs, a completely revamped console REPL, and a bunch of library compatibility improvements. The charm.clj counter example in the post is a single-file script you can run right away to get an idea of the new TUI capabilities. Have fun scripting!

Babashka 1.12.215: Revenge of the TUIs

Borkdude — Tue, 17 Feb 2026 11:18:36 +0000

Article URL: https://blog.michielborkent.nl/babashka-1.12.215.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47046243

Points: 24

# Comments: 4

New comment by Borkdude in "Jeffgeerling.com has been migrated to Hugo"

Borkdude — Mon, 05 Jan 2026 22:03:07 +0000

Babashka now has a built-in markdown library. Babashka now also has a built-in HTML parsing library: Jsoup.

Why does bb carry too much baggage? Because it has useful libraries like the above?

Build a ClojureScript native desktop app in 5 minutes [video]

Borkdude — Fri, 07 Nov 2025 12:05:52 +0000

Article URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uEVo8rqJgyw

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45845597

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

Building Browser-Native Presentations with Scittle / ClojureScript

Borkdude — Wed, 05 Nov 2025 09:08:15 +0000

Article URL: https://clojurecivitas.github.io/scittle/presentations/browser_native_slides.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45820950

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by Borkdude in "Reagami: A minimal zero-deps Reagent-like for Squint and CLJS"

Borkdude — Tue, 04 Nov 2025 14:24:05 +0000

Reagami author here!

New comment by Borkdude in "Reagami: A Reagent-like library in less than 100 lines of Squint CLJS"

Borkdude — Fri, 24 Oct 2025 22:25:03 +0000

Github repo here: https://github.com/borkdude/reagami

Reagami: A Reagent-like library in less than 100 lines of Squint CLJS

Borkdude — Fri, 24 Oct 2025 22:24:35 +0000

Article URL: https://blog.michielborkent.nl/reagami.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45699731

Points: 1

# Comments: 1

New comment by Borkdude in "Practical Scheme"

Borkdude — Thu, 23 Oct 2025 13:50:17 +0000

You kinda can:

https://github.com/babashka/babashka/wiki/Self-contained-exe...

New comment by Borkdude in "Eucalypt: <10kb Reagent UIs with Squint ClojureScript [video]"

Borkdude — Sat, 11 Oct 2025 12:41:38 +0000

Blog post here:

https://mccormick.cx/news/entries/i-replaced-react-reagent-w...

Eucalypt: <10kb Reagent UIs with Squint ClojureScript [video]

Borkdude — Sat, 11 Oct 2025 12:27:32 +0000

Article URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SLnCzW5cg3U

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45548640

Points: 2

# Comments: 2

I Replaced React and Reagent with 720 Lines of Slop-Coded Squint-Cljs

Borkdude — Thu, 02 Oct 2025 12:47:20 +0000

Article URL: https://mccormick.cx/news/entries/i-replaced-react-reagent-with-720-lines-of-slop-coded-squint-cljs

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45448943

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

Tiny Reagent-compatible UIs with no React

Borkdude — Thu, 02 Oct 2025 10:01:07 +0000

Article URL: https://chr15m.github.io/eucalypt/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45447860

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by Borkdude in "ClojureScript 1.12.42"

Borkdude — Fri, 16 May 2025 22:31:56 +0000

The title didn't say compiler, it just said "Google Closure". The article I linked to is very clear that it's about the library.

New comment by Borkdude in "ClojureScript 1.12.42"

Borkdude — Fri, 16 May 2025 21:53:48 +0000

Updated the title

New comment by Borkdude in "ClojureScript 1.12.42"

Borkdude — Fri, 16 May 2025 21:50:40 +0000

This is not about maintaining compatibility with a Java version. As you can read in the post, Java 21 will be the minimum required Java version even. It's about the Google Closure Library on which many ClojureScript programs depend.

New comment by Borkdude in "ClojureScript 1.12.42"

Borkdude — Fri, 16 May 2025 20:20:20 +0000

> We are working on restoring that original stability. With this release, you’ll find that quite a few old ClojureScript libraries work again today as well as they did 14 years ago.

> ClojureScript is and never was only just for rich web applications. Even in the post React-world, a large portion of the web is (sensibly) still using jQuery. If you need robust DOM manipulation, internationalization, date/time handling, color value manipulation, mathematics, programmatic animation, browser history management, accessibility support, graphics, and much more, all without committing to a framework and without bloating your final JavaScript artifact - ClojureScript is a one stop shop.