Some tasty morsels of Clojure news for you.

June 28, 2021

Clojure Morsels

Archive

Love Letter To Clojure (Part 1) (Gene Kim)

Gene Kim tells us some of the many reasons to love Clojure.

Data Science with Clojure

Groups are making progress in bringing data science to Clojure.

Out of the Tar Pit (Ben Moseley and Peter Marks)

Is most complexity in software accidental or essential? Can complexity be tamed?

Articles

Code Observation: Clojure's Destructuring (Daniel Gregoire)

Take a journey of exploration into Clojure's destructuring and maybe learn a few things along the way.

Let and Binding macros in Clojure (Kasim Tuman)

let and binding are useful macros in Clojure but the differences between them are important. Take a closer look with Kasim.

The next phase of Clojurists Together (Daniel Compton)

New funding levels, new ways to take funding such as longer-term funding, and more direct interaction between funders and projects.

Tutorials

GraalVM + Clojure CLI + SCI tutorial (Michiel Borkent)

Learn how to build Clojure command-line tools using GraalVM native-images and the excellent SCI from Michiel Borkent.

Tools

open-source clojure databases (Crux Team)

A pretty fair comparison of OSS Clojure-Datalog databases. Who knew there were so many?

Linting HOF arity (Michiel Borkent)

Linting of arity of higher-order functions just landed in clj-kondo, upgrade today!

Automatic argument conversion to Functional Interface from Clojure fn (Tsutomu Yano)

Interop between Java FP and Clojure may get a whole lot easier soon.

Clojure LibHunt

Discover popular Clojure libraries on Reddit.

Jobs

Pitch is hiring (Adam Renklint)

There are at least six positions that include Clojure(Script).

Clojure Subreddit: "Who is hiring?"

Looking for work? More people are hiring for Clojure these days and several have posted here.

Parkside is hiring! (Parkside Securities)

Parkside Securities is now supporting Clojurists Together and is also hiring for a couple Clojure positions.