Scripting

Required

nushell babashka-bin janet-lang-bin python hy

Optional

clojure leiningen neil janet-lang-bin pypy3

Although nushell provides us with some good scripting ability, as many shells do, I sometimes feel myself drawn to some other languages for my scripting needs.

Today, I mainly use Clojure, or rather Babashka, for more advanced projects in conjunction with Leiningen and sometimes neil.

For some scripts, Julia is very nice, has a good ecosystem and I like it more than the snake.

I’m currently also trying out Janet, some features and properties are very intriguing for a system scripting language, but the ecosystem isn’t as mature.

I also sometimes feel like contorting myself, or in other words using Python, though I try to use PyPy. Not giving up on my lispy dreams, I’m trying out Hy with that.

Note

I also considered using xonsh (maybe also with coconut) as my main shell, but bad nvim support forces me to stay with nu at the moment, despite me fixing the weird slowdown issues with xonsh by removing all /mnt/c paths from $PATH.

For a UNIX system, all Windows files (/mnt/c) have the executable bit set, so when WSL appends the Windows paths to $PATH, like e.g. C:\Windows\System32, xonsh thinks they’re all executables. In reality, only .exes are executable but xonsh isn’t interested in that fact, causing massive slowdowns and hiccups, especially when using prompt-toolkit.