99: Zig, comment forms, and threadpools

Notes.

I’ve been a bit sick this week, and the kids have been sick the two weeks prior. I’m looking forward to leaving winter behind for this year!

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Rich Hickey’s talk on a history of Clojure is out now. The paper is here. You’ll also get to see Rich’s office (?) with a bunch of neat musical instruments.
How are Clojurians handling control flow in their projects?
Clojure Morsels is a new Clojure newsletter, check it out!
I’m really excited about the next phase of Clojurists Together
Nikita Prokopov wrote about his experience in the International Conference on Functional Programming using Clojure and Zig.
An interview with Juan Facorro on ClojErl

Libraries & Books.

rcf (Rich Comment Forms) is a new Clojure/Script library that lets you write usage examples with results and turn them into tests. Similar to doctests in Python.
Lambda Island have an open source update with a bunch of changes to their open source projects. I’m particularly excited about fetch.

Foundations.

An old gist on sizing Java threadpools, but one I hadn’t seen before. The advice on global thread pools applies to Clojure’s pmap and future functions.
Programming Language Memory Models by Russ Cox reviews different language memory models including Java’s.
io_uring is not an event system.

Tools.

Happy birthday to CIDER, it turned 9 last week. What a legacy, Bozhidar and all of the other contributors to CIDER should be proud.
tylr.fun is an interesting take on text editing. I especially like how it handles placing parentheses.
Sean Corfield has a nice writeup on their use of the Polylith application architecture.
How to publish Clojure libraries on Maven Central from the JUXT team
Writing C Code in Clojure/Java using GraalVM

Learning

Misc.

I was wrong. CRDTs are the future

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