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Babashka is cool. I’ve looked at it and want to learn more, but it’s always a question of time.
Babashka has saved me a lot of time. I actually think it is the quickest and easiest way to get started learning Clojure, to a point. No startup time didn't seem like a big deal for my workflow until I got instant startup time when running script, and starting repls -- The kind of repl where you can inspect and act on anything in your program.

Babashka tasks is fantastic too! Multi-threaded, simple, and very few surprises.

> actually think it is the quickest and easiest way to get started learning Clojure, to a point.

That's great, I was just checking out Clojure a few hours ago and now have it installed. Any other cool blogs and resources the fine folks on here could recommend.

If you are just getting into Clojure itself, you might enjoy this interactive tutorial in an app that is itself written in a Clojure/ ClojureScript combo: https://orgpad.com/s/iByMMbKLBnq There are links to other resources. Just click units with more pronounced shadows - those have contents, e.g. small interactive editors, videos etc.
I just started using 'nbb' which is a node.js version of Babashka for automating various web tasks using playwright and it has been fantastic
Babashka is a great success story for open source. The author has written so many useful and interesting utilities that he is now supported by contributions.