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Clojure Deref (May 19, 2026)

Clojure Deref (May 19, 2026)

19 May 2026
Christoph Neumann

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

Clojure Dev Call

The Clojure development team is pleased to announce a Clojure Dev Call on May 26 @ 17:00 UTC!

Join the Clojure dev team for an update on what we’ve been working on and what’s on our horizon. We’ll save time for a Q&A, so bring your questions.

Clojure/Conj 2026

Join us for the largest gathering of Clojure developers in the world! Meet new people and reconnect with old friends. Enjoy two full days of talks, a day of workshops, social events, and more.

September 30 – October 2, 2026
Charlotte Convention Center, Charlotte, NC

The CFP is open until June 14

Early Bird tickets are on sale now.

EuroClojure 2027

After a decade away, EuroClojure returns to mark twenty years of Clojure. Join us in Prague for three days of workshops, talks, and thoughtful conversation.

May 19-21, 2027
2027.euroclojure.org

Join the mailing list for early bird tickets and announcements. Share your ideas and content suggestions when you sign up.

Upcoming Events

Libraries and Tools

Debut release

  • let-go - Almost Clojure written in Go.

  • mino - A tiny, embeddable, REPL-friendly Lisp implemented in pure ANSI C.

  • clj-p4 - Read-only Perforce-to-Git bridge in Clojure, with stream and classic-depot support.

  • gloat-demo-fiber - A JSON REST API built with Fiber and Gloat, demonstrating Go/Clojure interoperability for web applications.

  • zulipdata - A Clojure library to fetch and analyse data from the Clojurians Zulip chat

  • rechentafel - A spreadsheet evaluator for Clojure/Script.

  • re-frame2 - The AI first-born of re-frame

  • ifgame - An interactive fiction game written in Clojure

  • drip - Drip is a transactional job queue for MariaDB, PostgreSQL, and SQLite

  • port - A minimalist Clojure interactive programming environment for Emacs, built on prepl

  • generate - code generation for Clojure projects

  • bara-lang - Clojure for nim language

  • gsheetplus - Low-level and high-level wrapper to work with Google Sheets. Reading, writing and sheet management.

  • winze - An agentic AI memory system (mcp server) with semantic search and GUI search/edit tool for Markdown knowledge bases

  • ghosttyfx - JavaFX terminal that uses libghostty

  • cljfx/ghosttyfx - Cljfx wrapper of GhosttyFX

  • beagle - a typed Lisp authoring surface for agent-written dynamic code.

  • ducktape - Connect tech.v3.dataset to DuckDB

  • phel-log - Data-driven logging library for Phel. Levels, namespace filtering, pluggable appenders, PSR-3 adapter, Monolog handler bridge. Inspired by Timbre + Monolog.

  • phel-symfony-demo - Symfony + Phel demo: Ring-style handlers over plain maps, no ORM

  • stube - Web framework inspired by Seaside and UnCommonWeb

  • clj-native-agent - Structural, semantic, and surgical skills for Clojure AI agents. Mimics expert practitioner workflows for code discovery, debugging, and editing using Babashka and rewrite-clj.

  • llmisp - JSON AST > Clojure

  • spindel - Cross-platform FRP runtime with a git-like memory model.

  • rephrase - Rephrase exceptions to be more beginner-friendly

Updates

  • clojure 1.12.5 - The Clojure programming language

  • clojure_cli 1.12.5.1645 - Clojure CLI

  • clojurescript 1.12.145 - Clojure to JS compiler

  • core.unify 0.7.2 - Unification library

  • clj-watson 6.1.0 - A Clojure tool that checks for vulnerable dependencies

  • aleph 0.9.8 - Asynchronous streaming communication for Clojure - web server, web client, and raw TCP/UDP

  • awesome-backseat-driver 1.0.13 - Plugin marketplace for Clojure AI context in GitHub Copilot: agents, skills, and workflows for REPL-first interactive programming with Calva Backseat Driver

  • logging4j2 1.0.8 - A Clojure wrapper for log4j2

  • core.async.flow-monitor 0.1.5 - A real-time monitoring and interaction tool for clojure.core.async.flow

  • martian-aleph 0.1.4 - Martian plugin to use the Aleph http client

  • thneed 1.1.9 - An eclectic set of Clojure utilities that I’ve found useful enough to keep around.

  • statecharts 1.4.0-RC13 - A Statechart library for CLJ(S)

  • joyride 0.0.75 - Making VS Code Hackable like Emacs since 2022

  • stratum 0.2.67 - Versioned, fast and scalable columnar database.

  • deps-new 0.12.1 - Create new projects for the Clojure CLI / deps.edn

  • bareforge 0.6.0 - Companion visual builder for BareDOM web components. Drag components, declare reactive state, export fully interactive CLJS or JS project

  • pg-datahike 0.1.43 - Postgres compatibility layer for Datahike.

  • de-dupe 0.3.0 - A ClojureScript library which "de-duplicates" Persistent Data Structures so they can be more efficiently serialised.

  • ClojureStorm 1.12.5 - A fork of the official Clojure compiler with extra code to make it a dev compiler

  • graal-build-time 1.0.6 - Initialize Clojure classes at build time with GraalVM native-image

  • tyrell 1.0.0-RC9 - Clojurescript WebComponents library

  • gloat 0.1.41 - Glojure AOT Tool

  • metamorph.ml 1.6.2 - Machine learning functions based on metamorph and machine learning pipelines

  • oksa 1.2.1 - Generate GraphQL queries using Clojure data structures.

  • pomegranate 1.3.27 - A sane Clojure API for Maven Artifact Resolver + dynamic runtime modification of the classpath

  • calva 2.0.588 - Clojure & ClojureScript Interactive Programming for VS Code

  • cli-tools 0.16.0-beta-7 - CLIs and subcommands for Clojure or Babashka

  • fulcro-spec 3.2.9 - A library that wraps clojure.test for a better BDD testing experience.

  • baredom 3.1.0 - BareDOM: Lightweight CLJS UI components built on web standards (Custom Elements, Shadow DOM, ES modules). No framework, just the DOM

  • o11ylite 2026.5.16-1112955 - Free, open-source OpenTelemetry backend powered by DuckDB 🦆 and SQLite

  • calva-backseat-driver 0.0.34 - VS Code AI Agent Interactive Programming. Tools for CoPIlot and other assistants. Can also be used as an MCP server.

  • plumcp 0.2.1 - Clojure/ClojureScript library for making MCP server and client

  • teensyp 0.5.0 - A small, zero-dependency Clojure TCP server that uses Java NIO

  • build-uber-log4j2-handler 2.26.0 - A conflict handler for log4j2 plugins cache files for the tools.build uber task.

  • phel-lang 0.39.0 - A functional, Lisp-inspired language that compiles to PHP. Inspired by Clojure, Phel brings macros, persistent data structures, and expressive functional idioms to the PHP ecosystem.

  • dexter 0.1-beta-2 - Dexter - Graphical Dependency Explorer

  • plotje 0.2.2 - simple and easy plotting