Clojure Deref (Mar 25, 2022)

25 March 2022
Alex Miller

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

Highlights

The big news this week is of course the Clojure 1.11 release! We are really happy this is now out there and available. It seems like people are enjoying a lot of the new functions available. Please drop any questions or issues at ask.clojure.org.

We also saw the launch this week of The Clouncil, a new interactive Clojure show for beginners - it was a lot of fun.

Also I wanted to highlight Daniel Higginbotham’s post Learning Clojure yields surprising long-term benefits. These companies are hiring and will train you. which is does a great job highlighting some benefits of Clojure.

Podcasts and videos

• Clojure 1.11 - exploring some new stuff - Mitesh

• Grokking Clojure Macros - A Complete Guide - Vishal Gautam

• nbb: ad-hoc scripting for Clojure on Node.js (by Michiel Borkent) - London Clojurians

• Lisp as Renaissance Workshop: A Lispy Tour through Mathematical Physics - Sam Ritchie - European Lisp Symposium

• Building SICMUtils, the Atelier of Abstractions - Sam Ritchie - European Lisp Symposium

• Learn Pedestal course - Jacek Schae

Blogs

• The unreasonable effectiveness of data-oriented programming - Chris Ford

• Couplings in Clojure testing tools - Phillip Mates

• Hot loading C wasm with heap preservation - Crispin Wellington

• Dismal Arithmetic in Dyalog APL and Clojure - eval/apply

• Hike - Deriving identity in mutable grids - Aris Spathis

• Pipewire: Effortless Linux Audio - Savo Djuric

• Clojure CLI Dependabot support via Maven - Ambrose Bonnaire-Sergeant

• Leiningen Dependabot support via Maven - Ambrose Bonnaire-Sergeant

Libraries and Tools

New releases and tools this week:

• calva 2.0.257 - Clojure & ClojureScript Interactive Programming for VS Code

• aleph 0.4.7 - Asynchronous communication for Clojure

• aws-api - AWS, data driven

• kaocha-testcontainers-plugin - This is a plugin for the kaocha testrunner. It manages the lifecylce of Testcontainers

• clojure-deps-edn - User level aliases and Clojure CLI configuration for deps.edn based projects

• fatum 0.0.20 - Railway oriented programming for clojure & clojurescript

• jo_lisp - Fast Embeddable Clojure in C

• clj-statecharts 0.1.3 - State Machine and StateCharts for Clojure(Script)

• healthy 0.1.16 - A simple Clojure (JVM) library for doing health checks over a given duration

• lighthouse - A data-driven Kubernetes pre-processor

• logseq-query - lq is a commandline tool for querying your logseq knowledge graphs