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• Renzo Borgatti has a list of Rich Hickey’s answers to a bunch of commonly asked questions.
• Reasoning about systems

Libraries & Books.

• Humble Bundle has a deal on a bunch of O’Reilly FP books, including Living Clojure, Clojure Cookbook, and Clojure Programming.

People are worried about Types. ?

• Spec making errors worse in Clojure 1.9

Foundations.

• Project Detroit seeks to bring the V8 JavaScript engine to OpenJDK
• The Java SE roadmap has been updated with support for Java 8 until January 2019.

Tools.

• Cursive now supports Parinfer v3
• Pyro is a new library that looks like it will vastly improve the experience of Clojure stacktraces, by showing the actual code that failed in the stacktrace.
• The suite of core Clojure tooling continues to expand with test-runner.

Recent Developments.

• Good note from Alex Miller on what’s involved in handling patches.
• Allowing custom read-cond features

Learning.

• Robert Stuttaford’s Clojure learning journey building a registration system for ClojureBridge

Misc.

• “In 1901, two years before helping build the first heavier-than-air flyer, Wilbur Wright told his brother that powered flight was fifty years away. In 1939, three years before he personally oversaw the first critical chain reaction in a pile of uranium bricks, Enrico Fermi voiced 90% confidence that it was impossible to use uranium to sustain a fission chain reaction.” - There’s No Fire Alarm for Artificial General Intelligence