Re: Thoughts on this ob language generator

[George Mauer <gmauer@gmail.com>]

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Thanks a lot Tim, I really appreciate you responding (as you said, it can
be discouraging to not get any response)

For the record, I just tried this simple example and it works

#+begin_src emacs-lisp :results silent
  (create-ob-npx :name "ob-nbb"
                 :language "clojurescript"
                 :npx-arguments "nbb")
#+end_src

#+begin_src clojurescript
  (prn (+ 1 2 3))
#+end_src

#+RESULTS:
: 6


Never pushed anything to MELPA before but will have to take a look at how
to do this.

On Sat, Jan 14, 2023 at 7:41 PM Tim Cross <theophilusx@gmail.com> wrote:

> George Mauer <gmauer@gmail.com> writes:
>
> > I had a need the other day to execute some typescript in an org
> document. Now I know that there's an
> > ob-typescript package but that doesn't quite work the way I want and
> expects typescript to be installed
> > globally (which runs into a variety of versioning issues).
> >
> > There is a better option available with the `npx` program (installed
> alongside `npm`) which can install a
> > package along with its dependencies into a temporary sandbox and run its
> binaries.
> >
> > I rewrote the typescript babel plugin to do this and then realized that
> there was relatively little in it
> > beyond variable and function names that was typescript-specific. The
> exact same process can be used for
> > anything that has an interpreter up on npm. Coffeescript, mermaidjs, all
> sorts of things.
> >
> > So I made a macro. I'm interested what people here think:
> https://github.com/togakangaroo/create-ob-npx
>
> This looks interesting and could have some great potential. As you say,
> tehre is a growing class of languages which could be supported using
> this method. I'm interested in trying out the nbb package (Clojurescript
> on node) using this method, but right now, no time.
>
> Really just wanted to give feedbac as I noticed nobody else responded
> and didn't want to give the impression there was no interest.
>
>

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