Recoding mixed-encoding text files
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”....