Ad-hoc ClojureScript scripting of Mac applications

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does it mean I can finally stop copy-pasting hammerspoon scripts (can't be bored learning lua) and start writing my own? love it

The readme says: experimental

Which means different things for different people :)

"Experimental" for me means: ready to start playing around with, adopt if helpful

"Experimental" for my company means: Too early to adopt as a corner-stone technology

At this stage, I think most things in the Babashka ecosystem are "Experimental" currently (correct me if I'm wrong @borkdude :) ) but that haven't stopped me from migrating all my bash/sh scripts to it already.

Fair enough :)

It's experimental mostly because it's new and we don't have a lot of experience with this project yet, but so far it seems to do what it's supposed to do. Feel free to reach out on Github or Slack for issues/questions.

Check Fennel [0] - a Lisp like language that can be compiled to Lua. You'll still have to learn a bits of Lua as Fennel uses its data structures but that's small compromise for being able to interface with Hammerspoon or use all Lua libs.

[0] https://fennel-lang.org/

JXA has been around for a few years so you can already use JavaScript for scripting. Hammerspoon is “just” a convenience layer on top of the same OSA functionality used by AppleScript, JXA and this project.

Was initially not super thrilled because the problem with Apple script via JS is not JS syntax.

However, both bb and nbb support repl development so I bet you could get a repl running here too.

This could be very helpful for Apple scripting if you could see the effects or failures of your script immediately via repl.

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