Babashka + PostgreSQL

Recently I learned about the Babashka which is bills itself as a “Fast native Clojure scripting runtime”. It has most of the benefits of Clojure, but has the fast startup time associated with the GraalVM, on which it is based. While, it is not necessarily a Clojure replacement, it does make Clojure more accessible to everyday tasks one might do on the shell. In fact, since I have discovered this tool, it is the first thing I reach for when I need to write a shell script.