Intro.

When I started writing this a few weeks ago, I worried that there wouldn’t be enough to fill up a whole newsletter. But there’s so much going on at the moment in Clojure that I needn’t have worried.

Articles.

• Hello World for the Next Generation by Carin Meier, a touching piece on the power of code.
• Edge: A complete Clojure project you can leap from with autoloading cljs, Component integration, and boot setup. Edge uses Yada. Here’s an example resource definition for those curious about Yada.
• Onyx 0.9.7: How We Handle High Risk Design Changes. A high level look at how the Onyx team used test.check and Jepsen to shake out bugs while doing a major refactor.
• thi.ng show us how to use ClojureScript, WebWorkers, and WebGL

Libraries & Books.

• The Clojure alphas will continue until m̶o̶r̶a̶l̶e̶ spec improves. Just kidding of course, spec is coming along well.
• Ring 1.6.0 beta 2 was released this week with async handlers support. More discussion on Reddit.
• better-cond, a version of cond that supports :let and :when-let clauses
• Mutant: mutation testing for Clojure
• Akar, first class patterns for pattern matching with an extensive tutorial and FAQ
• Arachne’s retrospective and risk assessment.

People are worried about Types.

• Carp, a statically typed lisp without GC, modelled on Clojure.
• Method missing patch for Clojure

Foundations.

• Feynman on Fermat’s Last Theorem
• Making sense of Memory Barriers

Tools.

• ClojureScript namespace aliasing will make it a lot cleaner to write cross platform code using libraries like core.async and spec.

Learning.

• Timothy Baldridge builds Odin, a DSL for logic programming in Clojure
• Tickets are on sale now for EuroClojure 2016
• The first issue of The Clojure Atom by Brave Clojure
• Afterglow: Live Coding for Light Shows by James Elliott
• The Ultimate Guide to Learning Clojure for Free

Misc.

• Expert to Expert: Erik Meijer and Rich Hickey