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Clojure Deref (June 16, 2025)

Clojure Deref (June 16, 2025)

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!

Blogs, articles, and projects

Libraries and Tools

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

  • fs 0.5.26 - File system utility library for Clojure

  • 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

  • coax 2.0.4 - Clojure.spec coercion library for clj(s)

  • 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