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Spike

I looked into the state of GraalVM and Clojure and wrote some small work-related scripts.

GraalVM Build Tools

• Downloaded GraalVM and set $GRAALVM_HOME
• Found two main libraries for building GraalVM CLIs - https://github.com/luchiniatwork/cambada#packaging-as-a-native-image and https://github.com/taylorwood/clj.native-image (or https://github.com/taylorwood/lein-native-image for the lein equivalent). I chose clj.native-image as it seemed more focused on doing one thing well.
• First tried its template example which was easy to follow.
• Then added a graalvm build to one of our small cli tools
• Found it to be pretty straightforward except for a stdout flushing issue that was trivial to fix

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package sandbox;

import java.util.Arrays;
import java.util.Random;

public class SoABenchmark {

	public static Random rand = new Random(9001);
	public static int NUM_LABELS = 10;
	public static Struct[] aos;

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Introductory resources

• High level overview https://yogthos.github.io/ClojureDistilled.html
• Interactive exercises http://clojurescriptkoans.com/
• More interactive exercises https://www.4clojure.com/
• Community-powered Clojure courses https://clojurecademy.com/
• Getting started guide https://grison.me/2020/04/04/starting-with-clojure/
• Interactive book https://www.maria.cloud/
• Interactive workbook http://viewer.gorilla-repl.org/view.html?source=github&user=lspector&repo=clojinc&path=worksheet.clj
• Clojure by example https://github.com/inclojure-org/clojure-by-example

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(ns radix
  (:require [clojure.string :as string]))
(use 'clojure.java.io)
(use 'clojure.pprint)

(println "Loading names... ")
(time (def names
    (with-open 
      [rdr (reader 
            "/usr/share/dict/ProperNames")]

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Meld

A minimal example of creating a (mostly) working FUSE filesystem using Clojure. NOTE: I have only tested this with OSX, and it assumes you have already installed libfuse.

Trying it out

Create an empty directory at /tmp/meld to serve as your mount point, put these files in a directory called meld, then:

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(ns webdav
  (:require [clojure.string :as str]
            [clojure.data.xml :as xml]
            [org.httpkit.server :as hk-server]))

;; add the XML namespace that we'll use later
(xml/alias-uri 'd "DAV:")

(defn dissoc-in
  "Should be in the standard library..."