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Re:Janet: a lightweight, expressive and modern Lisp by cmiles74 on Wednesday May 13, 2020 @11:45AM (#23168044)
Running the batch file that comes with the project works for me and has worked on a variety of versions of Windows. I haven't had as much luck with the "clj" tool.

I don't see who the "clj" shell script is somehow "part of Clojure" any more than Leiningen or Boot. IMHO it's just a shell script and it works similarly to the other tools, except not in any way cross platform.

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Re:Janet: a lightweight, expressive and modern Lisp by billfruit on Wednesday May 13, 2020 @01:11PM (#23169121)
Yes but Leiningen is not distributed with Clojure. And as far as I remember there is no installer for Leiningen on Windows. Right now I find it is available through Chocolatey, but the main Leiningen page asks users to download and run a batchfile. That's a very strange instruction to ask a windows user to do: Running batch files downloaded from the internet goes against so much advice on computer security that is given to users.
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Re:Janet: a lightweight, expressive and modern Lisp by cmiles74 on Wednesday May 13, 2020 @01:26PM (#23169293)
Neither is clj, for some reason, and it installs the same way as Leiningen. ;-) From their website:

"Then run:

Invoke-Expression (New-Object System.Net.WebClient) .DownloadString('https://download.clojure.org/install/win-install-1.10.1.536....

There's also no clj installer for Windows although there is a Scoop package.

https://github.com/clojure/tools.deps.alpha/wiki/clj-on-Wind...

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