Notes.

There were several big pieces of Clojure news this week. First, Datomic announceda change in license to allow unlimited processes and a new client API suited for microservices. I wrote a guide to the licensing changes. Second, Clojure Conj is on as I write this, and has been getting all the videos out in record time. I’ll put some of my favourites in the next letter. Finally, Clojars has joined the Software Freedom Conservancy, and announced the Clojars Community Committee to support diversity and open source development in the Clojure and ClojureScript communities.

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• spec-ulation by Rich Hickey
• Macchiato, ClojureScript for the server from Yogthos
• Adventures in client-side routing with re-frame and OAuth
• Bringing bookmarklets back with ClojureScript and boot
• Writing Clojure and ClojureScript macros in a cljc file. I’ve run into this issue myself too.
• ClojureScript almost as fast as optimised C by Mike Fikes

Libraries & Books.

• durable-ref: Durable reference types for Clojure, with some excellent docs.
• alia, a Cassandra client has released 4.0.0-beta1

People are worried about Types. ?

• js.spec: clojure.spec for JavaScript
• Spectrum, static analysis for spec has a new release with a bunch of fixes
• Schema & Clojure Spec for the Web Developer
• Spec and code organisation

Foundations.

• 15 Years of Concurrency by Joe Duffy
• How to select the most free core?
• JVM heap size and its effect on throughput vs maximum response times
• Building machines that learn and think like people

Tools.

• Replique and reqlique.el, a new Clojure and ClojureScript development environment.
• Kibit 0.1.3 is out

Recent Developments.

• CLJ-1912: Optimised versions of the ‘<’ and ‘>’ functions for arities larger than 2.
• CLJ-1952: include var->sym in clojure.core

Learning.

• Reduce Mini-Course from PurelyFunctional.tv
• Deep learning with Cortex and Clojure
• Creating custom effects in re-frame
• A talk about destructuring

Misc.

• The always excellent Julia Evans with “Anatomy of a packet”, with more available at drawings.jvns.ca.