Notes.

I was talking with some Clojure developer friends and they mentioned they’d only recently discovered this newsletter. It was a reminder that not everyone knows about it. If you enjoy The REPL, would you consider sharing it with one of your friends/coworkers/bystanders? Thanks for reading!

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• There’s Immutable and then there’s Immutable
• The Ten Rules of [Datomic] Schema Growth
• Clojure is for type B personalities
• JavaScript modules in ClojureScript, and Externs Inference, which both tie into the release of ClojureScript 1.9.456
• Arachne has an alpha release out
• ‘Live’ programming, server-side
• ClojureScript: The industry’s favourite functional frontend language 

Libraries & Books.

• boot-new generates new projects based on boot/leiningen templates
• Datomic Doc manages :db/doc strings in your Datomic database
• Skippy McSkipface tracks resource dependencies

People are worried about Types. ?

• Java Without If

Foundations.

• Java SE State of the Union
• Introducing Riptide: WebKit’s Retreating Wavefront Concurrent Garbage Collector

Tools.

• Planck road ahead
• Clojure test runner of my dreams
• What’s the best way to setup a development environment with Clojure?

Recent Developments.

• Release notes for ClojureScript 1.9.456

Learning.

• Reagent Deep Dive part 4
• Disambiguating KBpedia Knowledge Graph Concepts
• Grokking Clojure’s thread-first and thread-last macros

Misc.

“I feel that we’ve entered a new phase here where the extant infrastructure providers — hardware providers — are now going to enter a new and much steeper phase of demise. … If I were those companies, I would seriously start carjacking [AWS] Snowmobiles. I mean, turn them around, right? I’d do something.”

Brian Cantrill - The economics of private clouds