17 April 2025
Alex Miller

Welcome to the Clojure Deref! This is a weekly link/news roundup for the Clojure ecosystem (feed: RSS). Thanks to Anton Fonarev for link aggregation.

Podcasts, videos, and media

Blogs, articles, and projects

Libraries and Tools

New releases and tools this week:

  • cursive 2025.1 - Cursive: The IDE for beautiful Clojure code

  • conjtest 0.0.1 - A command-line utility heavily inspired by and partially based on Conftest

  • cheshire 6.0.0 - Clojure JSON and JSON SMILE (binary json format) encoding/decoding

  • big-container - doom emacs development inside a container

  • datomic-pro-manager 1.0.0 - Download, setup, and run Datomic Pro backed by SQLite in a single command

  • amalgam 2.0.0 - Useful utilities and mixtures for com.stuartsierra/component

  • calva 2.0.501 - Clojure & ClojureScript Interactive Programming for VS Code

  • squint 0.8.146 - Light-weight ClojureScript dialect

  • cli 0.8.65 - Turn Clojure functions into CLIs!

  • slim 0.3.2 - The slim way to build Clojure

  • basilisp 0.3.8 - A Clojure-compatible(-ish) Lisp dialect targeting Python 3.9+

  • clojure-ts-mode 0.2.3 - The next generation Clojure major mode for Emacs, powered by TreeSitter

  • nippy 3.5.0 - Fast serialization library for Clojure

  • timbre 6.7.0 - Pure Clojure/Script logging library

  • tufte 2.7.0 - Simple performance monitoring library for Clojure/Script

  • http-kit 2.9.0-beta1 - Simple, high-performance event-driven HTTP client+server for Clojure

  • license-finder 0.4.0 - Finds licenses of your Clojure(Script) dependencies

  • babashka 1.12.198 - Native, fast starting Clojure interpreter for scripting