27 August 2021
Alex Miller
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I’d like to highlight the SciCloj community this week. This recent video is a great overview of what’s going on. They are working on a brand new web page which will be getting improved in the coming weeks.
So many people doing great work in this area and I appreciate the continued time and attention here. This is an area where Clojure can (and does!) shine but people are not as familiar with it as an option. Check it out and get involved if you’re interested.
This week I made another pass on the patch for lightweight keyword aliases based on Rich’s feedback and updated the patch on CLJ-2123. I’ve also been looking at the idea of providing some wrapper functions in Clojure core for commonly used Java functions and we’re investigating what would be most useful there - early leading candidates are number parsing, math functions, and uuid stuff. As always, this is investigative work that may or may not actually result in something.
Fogus has continued to work on update-keys and update-vals functions, the protocol preference issue in CLJ-1879, and several things for the Cognitect aws-api.
Long-term funding selections - Daniel Compton
Cheap interpreter, part 10: fastest one yet, then a hundred times faster - Gary Verhaegen
Down the rabbit hole with Clojure, defrecord, and macros - Howard Lewis Ship
The Classpath is a Lie - Lambda Island
deps.edn and monorepos V (Polylith) - Sean Corfield
Clojure Journey X – Namespaces - Otavio Valadares
On the Nature of Clojure Protocols - Rok Lenarčič
Multinomial Regression in Clojure - Atabey Kaygun
Hacking with Handlebars in Java and Clojure: Part II - Pranav Gajjewar
Founder Diaries: Clojure Hackers and a Fitness Startup - Stepan Parunashvili
ClojureVerse Report: August 22 downtime / Planned changes to infra
New releases and tools this week:
tools.build v0.1.9 - Library of functions for building Clojure projects
test-doc-blocks v1.0.137-alpha - Test AsciiDoc and CommonMark code blocks found in articles and docstrings
Tutkain 0.9.0 (alpha) - Sublime Text 4 package for interactive Clojure development
rewrite-clj v1.0.682-alpha - Rewrite Clojure Code and EDN
trenchman v0.2.0 - A standalone nREPL/prepl client written in Go
Calva 2.0.210 - REPL powered environment for enjoyable and productive Clojure and ClojureScript development in Visual Studio Code
clojure-lsp 2021.08.24-14.41.56 - Language Server (LSP) for Clojure
americano 1.2.0 - A simple tool for compiling Java from the Clojure CLI
Many, many years ago Aaron Bedra did a talk at Clojure/conj highlighting the (at the time) poor default state of web app security in Clojure. Because the Clojure community is awesome, that quickly resulted in a lot of changes to the defaults in Ring, Compojure, etc and fixed many of the problems.
Several years later, Joy Clark did a talk called Simple AND Secure? at EuroClojure 2017. This talk goes through the OWASP Top 10 areas (for 2017) and looks at what Clojure provides for web apps in those areas. I think most of it is still relevant and worth watching (but keep in mind this is 4 years old).
I think now is a good time for an update, both on the threats and the state of Clojure with respect to them. If you’re pitching things to a Clojure conference in the next year, I think this would be a great topic!
