On Thu, Apr 21, 2011 at 1:28 AM, Mike Meyer <m...@mired.org> wrote:

> On Wed, 20 Apr 2011 10:16:05 -0700 (PDT)
> David Jacobs <develo...@allthingsprogress.com> wrote:
>
> > What's the status on this? One of the reasons I don't use Clojure
> everyday,
> > much as I like it, is that I want it to integrate seamlessly with Unix
> for
> > scripting.
>
> Um, I've been using it with shebang scripts for a while now. You've
> got to do the usual interpreted interpreter double-script dance,
> though:
>
> 1) Write a shell script that launches java running the clojure main
> with all your favorite libraries somewhere on CLASSPATH.
>
> 2) Start your scripts with "#!/usr/bin/env scriptname" where
> scriptname is the clojure script you wrote in step 1.
>
> Performance pretty much sucks - starting the jvm is just slow. You can
> solve that with nailgun (or something similar), which will let you use
> the nailgun binary as the interpreter (i.e. "#!/usr/bin/env/clojure"
> where clojure is a copy/symlink to the nailgun binary), but you have
> to remember to start the nailgun server.
>
>
Jark uses a persistent JVM so it's very nice to use for this task.

Ambrose

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