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Clojure Deref (June 4, 2021)

Clojure Deref (June 4, 2021)

04 June 2021
Alex Miller

Welcome to the Clojure Deref! This is a new periodic (thinking bi-weekly) link/news roundup for the Clojure ecosystem. We’ll be including links to Clojure articles, Clojure libraries, and when relevant, what’s happening in the Clojure core team.

Highlights

ClojureScript turns 10 this week! Happy birthday ClojureScript! :cake: We mark this from the first commit by Rich Hickey in the repo. Several thousand commits later things are still going strong and David Nolen and Mike Fikes continue to lead the project. ClojureScript recently released version 1.10.866.

The StackOverflow developer’s survey for 2021 just opened. Last year they removed Clojure from the survey because they were scared we were growing too powerful (I assume). But this year’s survey includes Clojure as an option again, so let them know you’re out there! (It also seems a lot shorter this year.)

The :clojureD Conference is just hours away! Ticket sales have ended but presumably talks will be made available afterwards. If you’re going, we’ll see you there!

Experience reports

This week we saw several interesting Clojure experience reports worth mentioning:

  • Red Planet Labs gave an overview of their codebase and some of the techniques they use pervasively - using Schema, monorepo, Specter for polymorphic data, Component, with-redefs for testing, macros and more.

  • Jakub Holý at Telia talked about the importance of interactive development with Clojure.

  • Crossbeam did a talk at Philly Tech Week about why they bet on Clojure and their experience with hiring.

  • Shivek Khurana talked about how to find a job using Clojure. There are now many companies using and hiring for Clojure, although sometimes it’s challenging to find a Clojure job that is a good match for your location and/or experience - these are some great tips!

Libraries

Some interesting library updates and posts this week:

Art

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