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• Clojure 1.9.0-beta4 is out. It looks like the full release of Clojure 1.9 is very near.
• Pyroclast has a snazzy new website out
• IN/Clojure 2018 has opened their CFP

Libraries & Books.

• Specialist Server is a GraphQL server driven from specs

People are worried about Types. ?

• Clojure vs. The Static Typing World
• Another Non-Argument in Type Systems
• Feeding predicates from spec into Shen’s type checker?

Foundations.

• Project Loom is a proposal for Java to gain fibers (lightweight threads). Worth a read for the background on Java concurrency.
• The Z Garbage Collector is another new project for Java, optimising for low latency (< 10ms) pauses and large heaps.

Tools.

• Datawalk is a new tool for interactively exploring data structures at the REPL
• Closh is a bash-like shell based on ClojureScript
• Leiningen 2.8.1 is out with a bugfix release
• tools.deps.alpha 0.2.167 is out

Learning.

• Transducers from the ground up

Misc.

• Alan Kay on Lisp being the greatest single programming language designed