Notes.

Another long time between newsletters. Things have been quite busy lately in the Compton household with sick children, sick parents, and lots going on with Clojurists Together. Things seem to be settling back into a smoother rhythm though.

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• Stuart Sierra continues his popular Clojure style guide series with Threading with Style
• DataScript as a Lingua Franca for domain modelling
• I wrote about the good, bad, and ugly of Google Cloud Platform, contrasting it with AWS.
• How King uses Clojure to build a game editor
• Clojurists Together June monthly update from CIDER and ClojureScript

Libraries & Books.

• Incanter has a new version out
• Cronut is a scheduling library, built around quartz from fellow Kiwi Derek Troy-West

People are worried about Types. ?

• Ghostwheel is a spec omnibus library, including inline function specs (which are sorely needed in spec)
• Clojure’s native error messages seem to be getting a overhaul in CLJ-2373, the output looks a lot better and much less verbose.

Tools.

• Boot 2.8.0 and 2.8.1 are out
• A good dive into compiling Clojure apps with Graal
• C Reader for the Next Thousand Lisps is a Clojure reader in C, designed for you to build your own lisp with Clojure syntax.
• Light Table is seeking new maintainers
• Thomas Heller (shadow-cljs creator) on Why not Webpack?
• I wrote a guide on testing against multiple JVMs on Travis CI

Recent Developments.

• Clojure 1.10.0-alpha5 is raising the minimum Java version to 8

Learning.

• Jacek Schae has created a course on Learning Reagent
• Clojure/conj 2018 tickets are now on sale, and there is an open call for proposals. Durham looks nice!

Misc.

• and now for something completely different, I really enjoyed The Secret to Love is just Kindness.