Clojure Deref (Aug 3, 2025)

Clojure Deref (Aug 3, 2025)

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03 August 2025
Christoph Neumann

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

Upcoming Events

• Macroexpand 2: Aug 9

• Clojure/Conj 2025: Early Bird Tickets Available Now!

• Clojure South 2025: Pre-sale tickets and Call for Proposals open

• Macroexpand 2025: Currently inviting speakers and contributors

Podcasts, videos, and media

• Looking Ahead to Macroexpand — a snippet of Clojure real-world-data meeting 33 - Sci Cloj

• defn episode 7df1b8716726 Anna Colom - @defn podcast

Blogs, articles, and projects

• Programming is magic, or how I wrote a Kalaha solver - Vlad Protsenko

• I Snuck Clojure Into Work - Trevor Richards

• From the Ooloi Front: Towards Hello World - Peter Bengtson

• Multiplayer game with nbb and datastar - Gregory Bleiker

• List of Clojure-like projects - Igor Levdansky

Libraries and Tools

New releases and tools this week:

• bling 0.8.8 - Rich text console printing for Clojure, ClojureScript, and Babashka.

• big-config 0.2.187 - Operations done right.

• rama-jdbc - GitHub - amiorin/rama-jdbc

• lasertag 0.11.5 - Lasertag is a utility library for categorizing values in Clojure, ClojureScript, and Babashka

• datascript-mcp-server - 🚀 Datascript MCP Server

• reveal 1.3.287 - Read Eval Visualize Loop for Clojure

• nreplproxy - Nrepl debugging proxy that logs all traffic

• mcp-server 0.2.14 - MCP Server library

• clay 2-beta49 - A REPL-friendly Clojure tool for notebooks and datavis

• omega-red 2.5.0 - Idiomatic Redis client for Clojure

• statecharts statecharts-1.2.22 - A Statechart library for CLJ(S)

• honeysql 2.7.1340 - Turn Clojure data structures into SQL

• babashka 1.12.207 - Native, fast starting Clojure interpreter for scripting

• zsxf - Query engine: incremental view maintenance for Datomic/Datascript databases