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Clojure Deref (Mar 18, 2026)

Clojure Deref (Mar 18, 2026)

18 March 2026
Christoph Neumann

Welcome to the Clojure Deref! This is a weekly link/news roundup for the Clojure ecosystem (feed: RSS).

Clojure Data Science Survey

Do you use clojure for Data Science? Please take the survey. Your responses will help shape the future of the Noj toolkit and the Data Science ecosystem in Clojure.

Clojurists Together: Call for Proposals

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.

Upcoming Events

Libraries and Tools

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.

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