16 June 2025
Christoph Neumann
Welcome to the Clojure Deref! This is a weekly link/news roundup for the Clojure ecosystem (feed: RSS).
Clojure/Conj 2025 will be held Nov 12-14 in Charlotte, NC. Early Bird Registration is now open. We look forward to seeing you in-person and online!
Dustin Getz - Electric Clojure Differential Dataflow for UI (KEYNOTE) - LambdaConf
SciNoj Light #1 - 2.6: macroexpand-1 community session - Sci Cloj
Clojure visual-tools 34 - partial recording: nrepl-ws-server, nrepl-ws-client, Clay - Sci Cloj
Simple ideas with huge impact from Clojure and Rama (by Nathan Marz) - London Clojurians
UI, Pure and Simple (by Christian Johansen) - London Clojurians
Scicloj AI Meetup 8: Clojure-MCP - Sci Cloj
Designing Clobber: A Deep Dive into a Clojure-Powered Editor for Text and Code - phronmophobic
defn episode 3d32130bbe3d Drew Raines - @defn podcast
Turning the Conference Inside Out - reflecting backward & forward on Clojure conferences and growth - Sci Cloj
Functional Creative Coding with Patterning (by Phil Jones) - London Clojurians
XTDB: A Bitemporal database in Clojure - The REPL
CoPilot hacked my editor - CalvaTV
How One Clojure Function Destroyed Agent Framework Completely - Pragyan Tripathi
Defold Editor Development. Tips and Tricks - Alexey Gulev
Akima splines - Jan Wedekind
New releases and tools this week:
clojure-desktop-toolkit 0.3.1 - Create native state-of-the-art desktop applications in Clojure using Eclipse’s SWT graphics toolkit.
basilisp 0.4.0 - A Clojure-compatible(-ish) Lisp dialect targeting Python 3.9+
ai-tools 1.0 - tools that help AI development assistants do Clojure
malli 0.19.1 - High-performance data-driven data specification library for Clojure/Script.
lazytest 1.7.0 - A standalone BDD test framework for Clojure
markdown 0.7.186 - A cross-platform clojure/script parser for Markdown
deps-new 0.9.0 - Create new projects for the Clojure CLI / deps.edn
xtdb 2.0.0 - An immutable SQL database for application development, time-travel reporting and data compliance. Developed by @juxt
next-jdbc 1.3.1048 - A modern low-level Clojure wrapper for JDBC-based access to databases.
babashka 1.12.202 - Native, fast starting Clojure interpreter for scripting
quickblog 0.4.7 - Light-weight static blog engine for Clojure and babashka
fluent-clj 0.1.0 - Project Fluent for Clojure/script
patcho - Patching micro lib for Clojure
qclojure - A functional quantum computer programming library for Clojure with simulation backend and visualizations.
clojure-plus 1.6.0 - A project to improve experience of using Clojure stdlib
fusebox 1.0.11 - An extremely lightweight fault tolerance library for Clojure(Script) and Babashka
calva 2.0.519 - Clojure & ClojureScript Interactive Programming for VS Code
pedestal 0.8.0-beta-1 - The Pedestal Server-side Libraries
dataspex 2025.06.7 - See the shape of your data: point-and-click Clojure(Script) data browser
joyride 0.0.47 - Making VS Code Hackable like Emacs since 2022
pretty 3.4.0 - Library for helping print things prettily, in Clojure - ANSI fonts, formatted exceptions
build-uber-log4j2-handler 2.25.0 - A conflict handler for log4j2 plugins cache files for the tools.build uber task.
logging4j2 1.0.3 - A Clojure wrapper for log4j2