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• If you haven’t read Bozhidar’s post on the future of CIDER I’d urge you to do so.

  I really think the work I’ve done (not to mention the great work others have done) is worth a bit more than this, and I hope that people are going to realize this before I decide to throw in the towel and call it quits.

  If you use CIDER in your day job, think about supporting the Open Collective, either individually, or through your company. Since he wrote the post, annual donations have gone from $4k/year to $7k/year. Based on the most recent survey results, 46% of respondents use CIDER, so there is a lot of opportunity for us to grow that number. A few dollars each month is a small price to pay to ensure that CIDER continues to grow and be maintained.

• The Clojure survey results are out. I analysed the free-form comments, and Alex Miller had a good follow-up on the comments.

• Alternatives to Clojurians Slack.

• Clojurists Together is funding Aleph and Neanderthal for the next three months.

• Deep Learning in Clojure from Scratch to GPU - Part 0 - Why Bother?

Libraries & Books.

• aerospike-clj is a new Clojure client for the Aerospike database
• Sean Corfield has been doing some work on a new JDBC library.
• Datascript has a new release out with significant performance improvements. Some of this work was funded by Clojurists Together.
• js-interop looks like a really nice CLJS library for interoperating with JS objects. Be sure to read the motivation section to see how it compares to your other options.

Foundations.

• We need more (Java) keywords, captain!
• DIY Garbage Collector

Tools.

• Bozhidar has written a bunch of other posts lately. Happy New CIDER, nREPL: Beyond Clojure, CIDER 0.20 (Oslo), and The Clojure Style Guide Redux.
• Leiningen 2.9.0 is out
• Writing awesome docstrings.
• The future of Boot looks good.

Recent Developments.

• Alex Miller has some updates on what he’s been working on: survey, spec, spec, clojure.main errors, spec, surveys, spec, spec, jdk regression, spec, sets, tools.deps.
• CLJ-2484 has more details on the JDK performance regression.
• ClojureScript 1.10.516 is out with a bunch of improvements, including better type inference, better performance, and porting Clojure 1.10’s error messages.

Misc.

• Time Formatting and Storage Bugs ordered by year. Luckily, after 2019 we don’t have any serious classes of bugs coming until 2036.

I’m Daniel Compton. I maintain public Maven repositories at Clojars, private ones at Deps, and help fund OSS Clojure projects (along with tons of generous members like Pitch, JUXT, Metosin, Adgoji, and Funding Circle) at Clojurists Together. If you’ve enjoyed reading this, tell your friends to sign up at therepl.net, or post a link in your company chatroom. If you’ve seen (or published) a blog post, library, or anything else Clojure/JVM related please reply to this to let me know about it.

If you’d like to support the work that I’m doing, consider signing up for a trial of Deps, a private, hosted, Maven Repository service that I run.

Thanks!