Notes.

There’s lots of good stuff every week, but the last few weeks, in particular, have been a bumper crop, and I’ve had to leave a lot out. A good problem to have.

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• Clojars has a new (low volume) mailing list for people who run Clojars mirrors.
• Reminder that the State of Clojure survey is still running until December 23rd
• Zach Tellman is hanging out his shingle
• My disillusionment with Clojure and lisps (but not mine)
• Goodhertz - config to code

Libraries & Books.

• re-frame 0.9.0 is released
• karma-reporter has a new release for pretty printing CLJS tests
• The mount vs. component wars have a splinter faction: mount-lite
• Odin is an extensible logic DSL from Timothy Baldridge
• Special, a condition system for Clojure
• Joker is a small interpreted dialect of Clojure written in Go
• edn-java 0.5.0 was released

People are worried about Types. ?

• Self Healing Code with clojure.spec

Foundations.

• Minimum realistic GC time for G1 collector on a 10GB heap, with stellar comments (as usual) from Gil Tene
• Let’s stop copying C

Tools.

• Even if you don’t use Nightlight, you need to read the release notes just for the humour value alone. 1.3.0 is out.
• I’m still not sure what to think about running Maven plugins in Boot or Leiningen builds

Recent Developments.

• CLJ-308: protocol-ize with-open
• A discussion on error messages
• A rationale for using the s/def pattern

Learning.

• Spend a few minutes reading Christophe Grand’s code mixing macros and code in cljc to support clj, cljs and self-hosted cljs.
• Tale of Timezones and how FP is the Easy Way
• Tips and Tricks for Component
• PurelyFunction.tv is giving away some Clojure books

Misc.

And now for something completely different that I really enjoyed this week: Things of Beauty: Super Smash Bros. as Spectator Sport. N.B. the video has some salty language.