clerk-watch fails with error

[simon-brooke]

Following your instructions in Running / Editing the Essays using Visual Studio Code on a MacBook pro, I got as far as bb clerk-watch; this failed with the following error:

Reflection warning, nextjournal/markdown.clj:22:5 - call to method allowExperimentalOptions on org.graalvm.polyglot.Context$Builder can't be resolved (no such method).
Exception in thread "main" Syntax error macroexpanding at (markdown.clj:13:3).

As usual the Clojure backtrace is overly prolix and not enormously helpful, but I noted these points which may be helpful:

        at nextjournal.clerk.parser$eval5422$loading__6789__auto____5423.invoke(parser.cljc:1)
        at nextjournal.clerk.parser$eval5422.invokeStatic(parser.cljc:1)
        at nextjournal.clerk.parser$eval5422.invoke(parser.cljc:1)
...
        at nextjournal.clerk.analyzer$eval465$loading__6789__auto____466.invoke(analyzer.clj:1)
        at nextjournal.clerk.analyzer$eval465.invokeStatic(analyzer.clj:1)
        at nextjournal.clerk.analyzer$eval465.invoke(analyzer.clj:1)
 ...
        at nextjournal.clerk$eval162$loading__6789__auto____163.invoke(clerk.clj:1)
        at nextjournal.clerk$eval162.invokeStatic(clerk.clj:1)
        at nextjournal.clerk$eval162.invoke(clerk.clj:1)
...
        at mentat.clerk_utils.docs$eval154$loading__6789__auto____155.invoke(docs.clj:1)
        at mentat.clerk_utils.docs$eval154.invokeStatic(docs.clj:1)
        at mentat.clerk_utils.docs$eval154.invoke(docs.clj:1)
...
        at mentat.clerk_utils.build$eval146$loading__6789__auto____147.invoke(build.clj:1)
        at mentat.clerk_utils.build$eval146.invokeStatic(build.clj:1)
        at mentat.clerk_utils.build$eval146.invoke(build.clj:1)
...
        at user$eval138$loading__6789__auto____139.invoke(user.clj:1)
        at user$eval138.invokeStatic(user.clj:1)
        at user$eval138.invoke(user.clj:1)

Babashka installed (this morning) via Homebrew:

illuminator:road-to-reality simon$ bb --version
babashka v1.3.179

Clojure almost certainly also installed via Homebrew, but not this morning

illuminator:road-to-reality simon$ clj --version
Clojure CLI version 1.10.3.1058

I've not been updating Java on MacOS lately because Oracle wants me to accept obnoxious new license terms I'm not prepared to accept:

illuminator:road-to-reality simon$ java -version
java version "1.8.0_161"
Java(TM) SE Runtime Environment (build 1.8.0_161-b12)
GraalVM 1.0.0-rc1 (build 25.71-b01-internal-jvmci-0.42, mixed mode)

Let me know whether there's any further information that would help you diagnose.