Clojure

I’ve been building a little project with Clojure to automatically switch my IKEA Trådfri lights when I start playing a video and restoring them when I pause. I’m lazy, I know. I used Clojure because it’s fun, and I like to use fun languages when not writing code for money. Also, there’s a good CoAPS library available for Java, which is a big plus, as many other languages don’t have support for CoAPS, which is CoAP + TLS....

Some of my colleagues are regular users of Clojure, a JVM-based Lisp. I do like Lisp-based languages. I’ve attempted last year’s Advent of Code in Racket, and it was a great experience (although I am apparently not as great a coder as I thought I was 😢). Anyway. JVM-based languages are normally not great for scripting, on account of the longish startup time of the virtual machine. The aforementioned colleagues have sung the praises of Babashka, which is a version of Clojure suitable for scripting “where you would use bash otherwise”....