Building native CLI tools with Clojure on GraalVM

A long time ago in a galaxy far, far away... Clojure had garnered the reputation of being a heavy weight tool ideal only for server deployments on the JVM. Added together with its dynamic nature, full native compilation needed for fast and portable CLI tools seemed a fantasy. Until now...

Learn about using the GraalVM to build such tools while still using the best language ever.

The second half of the meetup will be hands on. So bring a laptop (or a friend with a laptop:)). If you are new to Clojure and you do not have a development environment setup yet - no problem!
You will be able to pair with somebody who has.

If you would like to prepare your Laptop - these installation instructions worked for us: https://github.com/bob-cd/wendy#running.

Rahul De (https://github.com/lispyclouds ,
https://twitter.com/lispyclouds) is primarily a back-end and
infrastructure consultant at ThoughtWorks Berlin. He loves Clojure as
much as he loves vegan food and sustainable living. A big time FOSS
enthusiast and loves building a decentralized and sustainable
communities. Being a performance junkie, he loves to eke out as much
from the dumb silicon rock as possible and hopes that hardware is
functional too someday.