Notes.

• Just a short newsletter this week as I’m short on time, preparing for an upcoming talk, and starting a new project at work.

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• I haven’t had a chance to watch too many of the conference talks yet, but I really enjoyed Toby Crawley’s Clojure, Java 9, and You, Paul De Grandis’ Faster Delivery with Pedestal and Vase, and Tim Baldridge’s Core.Async in Use.
• Which Clojure testing library is most used?

Libraries & Books.

• Neanderthal 0.9.0 has a release post out

Foundations.

• Java 9 Countdown
• Java Epsilon GC - a new GC that doesn’t do any garbage collection(!).

Tools.

• Unravel is a new Socket REPL with some nice features.
• Joker is a Clojure linter and interpreter written in Go

Recent Developments.

• After my post last week about predicates returning nil, Alex Miller suggested opening an issue.
• I opened CLJ-2141 which has become the most voted issue on the Clojure tracker in short time. Alex Miller has done a bunch of good work benchmarking the different options, and come up with an approach.

Learning.

• Bit handling in Clojure
• Exploring the memoize function
• Clojure Protocols & Records

Misc.

• Make sure to keep the javanisse happy in your next interview.