28 July 2025
Christoph Neumann
Welcome to the Clojure Deref! This is a weekly link/news roundup for the Clojure ecosystem (feed: RSS).
Datomic Workshop: July 31
Clojure/Conj 2025: Early Bird Tickets Available Now!
Macroexpand 2025: Currently inviting speakers and contributors
REPL-driven development (RDD) with Clojure - Andrey Fadeev
Building procedural Minecraft roguelike Dungeons with ClojureScript - mccormix
Building the Piglet Playground - Lambda Island
Macro Templates in Clojure - Clojure Diary
Clojure Corner: Interview with Nathan Marz - Flexiana
Turning the Conference Inside Out - reflecting backward & forward on Clojure conferences and growth - Sci Cloj
Build Your Own Static Site Generator - Ryan Ellingson
Introducing seqfind.com - Alex Sheluchin
The Hidden Lessons in a re-frame App - Laurence Chen
Clojure Land - Brett Adams
Keeping it fun: goto in Clojure - Bryan Maass
Beginner-friendly intro to MCP development with Clojure and Claude - Daniel de Oliveira
YS on the Go - YS — YAML Done Wisely - Ingy döt Net
YS on jank, bb and ys - YS — YAML Done Wisely - Ingy döt Net
New releases and tools this week:
clj-hackernews-api - Clojure client library for the HackerNews API
clojure-repl-intellij 2.6.0 - Free OpenSource IntelliJ plugin for Clojure REPL development.
clojure-mcp 0.1.7-alpha - Clojure MCP
clojure-stack-lite 0.2.0 - 🪶A quick way to start a full-stack Clojure app with Server-side Rendering. Built on SQLite/PostgreSQL, HTMX, AlpineJS and TailwindCSS v4
simulflow 0.1.6-alpha - A Clojure library for building real-time voice-enabled AI pipelines. Simulflow handles the orchestration of speech recognition, audio processing, and AI service integration with the elegance of functional programming.
nhspd 2.0.74 - Support for the UK NHS Postcode directory, linking all UK postcodes to administrative and political areas, including LSOA for small region population (1000-1500 people) analytics.
clods 2.0.224 - A microservice and toolchain for providing UK organisational data services (ODS).
clj-proj 0.1.0-alpha2 - A native (or transpiled) version of PROJ for both the JVM and JS ecosystems.
deps-new 0.10.0 - Create new projects for the Clojure CLI / deps.edn
mcp-server 0.2.11 - MCP Server library
clj-kondo 2025.07.28 - Static analyzer and linter for Clojure code that sparks joy
eca 0.10.3 - Editor Code Assistant (ECA) - AI pair programming capabilities agnostic of editor
qclojure 0.9.0 - A functional quantum computer programming library for Clojure with backend protocols, simulation backends and visualizations.
neanderthal-stick 0.5.0 - Save/Load Extensions for Neanderthal, Fast Clojure Matrix Library
ring-nexus-middleware 2025.07.28 - Ring FCIS (Functional Core Imperative Shell) support through nexus
desiderata 2.2.0 - Things wanted or needed but missing from clojure.core
cursive 2025.2-eap5 - Cursive: The IDE for beautiful Clojure code
