Variant: Native image

[Deraen]

Features:

• BB task to build a native image of the app
• Buddy example (as it needs some config to work within the native image?)

Opening a draft PR to better see the diff between master branch and these changes.

If some of the changes make sense in the master branch, I'll try to cherry-pick them there.

[Deraen]

I kind of disagree with including user specific REPL tools in the project configuration.

Usually, cider-nrepl middleware is added by the editor when launching the REPL process. With lein tools like hashp were easy to add to the ~/.lein/profiles.clj but I guess it isn't as easy with ~/.clojure/deps.edn because you'd still need to refer to a alias created there to enable those deps... hmm.

[viesti]

Yeah, agree too, was just for my own convenience here.

Use specific aliases need to be activated, so if a project has say a bb dev task bundled for easy startup, maybe there could be options in the task to specify those aliases, or actually, I wonder if babashka supports user-specific task files, since this user-specific customization needs kind of two things 1) deps.edn 2) starting with custom arguments...

[Deraen]

I think adding the env var here does make sense, but AFAIK removing the io/resource call does break the case of reading the file from classpath.

[viesti]

Yeah, I think this might be a mistake even, was trying to avoid putting the config.edn into the resulting native image, since classpath resource loading is captured via the agent run, but here the config is actually a aero config, which just bundles defaults and instructs reading from environment variables, so we actually want the file in the native binary too...

Though, I think in the past I've found use in being able to specify alternative aero config.edn, that can be loaded outside the classpath, but maybe this is not useful in an example template.

[Deraen]

This ignore is incorrect, library clj-kondo configuration should be commited to the repo.

[viesti]

Ah true, also clj-kondo documentation mentions that https://github.com/clj-kondo/clj-kondo/blob/master/doc/config.md#importing

Typically, you will want to check copied configs into version control with your project.

[Deraen]

I guess it is good idea to set this in any ns that does any JVM interop. I wonder if there is a way to enable this for the whole project, or is that something we would want.