Clojure Deref (Jan 27, 2026)

27 January 2026
Christoph Neumann

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

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Debut release

  • gmail-mbox-codec - A tiny script to enable efficient incremental file-based backups from Gmail takeouts.

  • spacegolfbang - Game engine source for Spacegolf

  • invoker - Zero config CLI, HTTP, and REPL interface for Clojure.

  • lein-unused-deps - A Leiningen plugin to detect unused dependencies

  • game-of-life-joy-of-data - Adding visualization to Alex Miller joy of data talk with the game of life

  • glance - A Clojure library for getting a plot on the screen with minimal ceremony

  • radiale - What if home automation was homoiconic? Just transformations of data? No more YAML!

  • charm.clj - A Clojure TUI (Terminal User Interface) library inspired by Bubble Tea

  • jbundle - Package JVM applications (Clojure, Java) into self-contained binaries. No JVM installation required to run the output.

  • datastar-pedestal-adapter - This provides a SSE Datastar adapter that uses Pedestal’s SSE abstractions.

Updates

  • clojure_cli 1.12.4.1602 - Clojure CLI

  • thneed 1.1.6 - An eclectic set of Clojure utilities that I’ve found useful enough to keep around.

  • rv 0.0.11 - A Clojure library exploring the application of pure reasoning algorithms.

  • honeysql 2.7.1368 - Turn Clojure data structures into SQL

  • shadow-cljs-vite-plugin 0.0.6 - A robust Vite plugin for seamless integration with shadow-cljs

  • clojure-desktop-toolkit 0.4.4 - Create native state-of-the-art desktop applications in Clojure using Eclipse’s SWT graphics toolkit.

  • datalevin 0.10.2 - A simple, fast and versatile Datalog database

  • basilisp 0.5.0 - A Clojure-compatible(-ish) Lisp dialect hosted on Python 3 with seamless Python interop

  • clay 2.0.6 - A REPL-friendly Clojure tool for notebooks and datavis

  • squint 0.10.185 - Light-weight ClojureScript dialect

  • fulcro-rad 1.6.20 - Fulcro Rapid Application Development

  • statecharts 1.2.25 - A Statechart library for CLJ(S)

  • eca 0.97.0 - Editor Code Assistant (ECA) - AI pair programming capabilities agnostic of editor

  • agent-o-rama release/0.8.0 - End-to-end LLM agent platform for Java and Clojure for building, tracing, testing, and monitoring agents with integrated storage and one-click deployment. Inspired by LangGraph/LangSmith.