Articles.

• Websocket Shootout
• Application Configuration options
• Reducible Streams
• Reductionem ad finem

Libraries & Books.

• Clojure Polymorphism, a short book about, well it’s in the title.
• cuerdas 1.0.0, a Clojure(Script) string manipulation library
• manifail 0.4.0, Manifold failure handling
• banach, more Manifold failure handling
• shapeshifter, a way to l̶a̶u̶n̶d̶e̶r̶ convert your cryptocurrencies

People are worried about Types. ?

• Closable services
• The Ergonomics of Type Checking
• Clojure 1.9.0-alpha12 is out
• Generatively testing UI state with spec and devcards is an awesome idea
• Spec has vaulted itself towards the top of the validation benchmark league tables in alpha12

Foundations.

• A minimal JVM Value Types proposal for prototyping/evaluation
• How the JVM compares your strings, a.k.a. How Intel improved string comparisons with this one weird instruction.
• Contention on sun.misc.Cleaner

Tools.

• The Google Closure Compiler is now cross compiled to JavaScript

Waiting for 1.9.

• spec perf tweaks 1, 2
• coll-of now handles sequences - CLJ-1988
• Records now cache hasheq and hashCode - CLJ-1224
• Discussion on CLJ-322: Enhance AOT compilation process to emit classfiles only for explicitly-specified namespaces.

Learning.

• A long awaited return to Aphyr’s Clojure From The Ground Up series: State
• ClojureBridge Berlin has a cool new website
• Applying Clojure
• Martin Klepsch on desktop apps with ClojureScript and Electron