18 March 2026
Christoph Neumann
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Clojurists Together has opened the Q2 2026 funding round for open-source Clojure projects. Applications will be accepted through March 19th.
Read the announcement for more details.
Clojure Jam 2026: Postponed. Read why.
Clojure real-world-data 51: Mar 20
Babashka Conf: May 8. Amsterdam, NL. See the schedule.
Dutch Clojure Days 2026: May 9th. Amsterdam, NL. See the schedule.
ClojureStream Jobs - ClojureStream
Link into your REPL with clojure.net, from Hyperfiddle (by Dustin Getz) - London Clojurians
BigConfig: Simple over easy for operations - Alberto Miorin
Saying Hello you with ClojureScript - Clojure Diary
Clojure Jobs - ClojureStream - ClojureStream
Brief descriptions of known Clojure dialects - Lee Read
Updated list of Clojure-like projects - Igor Levdansky
How to start a Polylith project from scratch - Bruno Bonacci
Clojure Inheritance… Sort Of - Paula Gearon
Simple over easy for operations - Alberto Miorin
The Power of Framing: Why BigConfig is Rebranding as a Package Manager - Alberto Miorin
Agile & Agentic Engineering - David Vujic
Rama matches CockroachDB’s TPC-C performance at 40% less AWS cost - Nathan Marz
The System Doesn’t Know Its Own Shape - Juan Antonio Ruz
Debut release
spel - Idiomatic Clojure wrapper for Playwright. Browser automation, API testing, Allure reporting, and native CLI - for Chromium, Firefox, and WebKit
pants_backend_clojure - Pants build tool backend for Clojure
edgarjure - Clojure library for accessing SEC EDGAR filings — company lookup, filing content, XBRL financials, and NLP item extraction via SEC’s public APIs
aimee - Aimee is a Clojure library for streaming and non-streaming OpenAI compatible Chat Completions over core.async channels.
text-diff - Line-level text diffing for Clojure, ClojureScript and babashka
livewire - Embedded nREPL wire into a running Spring Boot app — giving AI agents and humans a live probe into the JVM. Inspect beans, trace SQL, detect N+1s, and hot-swap @Query annotations. Zero restarts.
rewrite-json - A Clojure library for format-preserving JSON and JSONC editing
clj-figlet - A native Clojure re-implementation of FIGlet — the classic ASCII art text renderer.
Updates
core.async 1.9.859-alpha4 - Facilities for async programming and communication in Clojure
tools.build 0.10.13 - Clojure builds as Clojure programs
transit-clj 1.1.357 - transit-format implementation for Clojure
transit-java 1.1.403 - transit-format implementation for Java
aws-simple-sign 2.3.2 - A Clojure library for pre-signing S3 URLs and signing HTTP requests for AWS.
scicloj.ml.xgboost 6.5.0 - A xgboost plugin for scicloj.ml
sklearn-clj 0.6 - Plugin to use sklearn models in metamorph.ml
legba 1.0.0-alpha147 - Clojure library for building OpenAPI services
appia 1.0.0-alpha12 - A fast Clojure router for Ring-style HTTP requests.
scicloj.ml.smile 7.6.0 - A Smile models plugin for metamorph.ml
hirundo 1.0.0-alpha212 - Helidon 4.x - RING clojure adapter
babashka 1.12.217 - Native, fast starting Clojure interpreter for scripting
rewrite-clj 1.2.54 - Rewrite Clojure code and edn
timing 0.8.2 - Time computation library with CRON scheduling capability
clay 2.0.14 - A REPL-friendly Clojure tool for notebooks and datavis
plumcp 0.2.0-beta4 - Clojure/ClojureScript library for making MCP server and client
fulcro 3.9.4 - A library for development of single-page full-stack web applications in clj/cljs
eca 0.115.2 - Editor Code Assistant (ECA) - AI pair programming capabilities agnostic of editor
calva 2.0.566 - Clojure & ClojureScript Interactive Programming for VS Code
epupp 0.0.13 - A web browser extension that lets you tamper with web pages, live and/or with userscripts.