Clojure Deref (May 26, 2026)

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

Upcoming Events

•Clojure Guild: Building Command Line Tools with lambdaisland/CLI/Babashka: May 28

•Clojure BR: Brazilian Utils com Ana Bastos: May 28

•Clojure real-world-data 60: May 29

•Clojure/Conj 2026: Sep 30-Oct 2. Charlotte, NC, USA. CFP is open until June 14. Early Bird tickets.

•EuroClojure 2027: May 19-21, 2027. Prague, Czech Republic. Join the mailing list

Podcasts, videos, and media

•Clojure Dev Team Call, May 2026 - ClojureTV

•Programming as and for Inference (by Christian Weilbach) - London Clojurians

•DOOM-lite written in Phel Lang running entirely in the terminal | Chemaclass - Chemaclass

•Finding File’s MIME Type, Using Apache Tika, in Clojure - Clojure Diary

•Swish: Using Claude Code to Create a Lisp in Swift - destructuring & more core - Rod Schmidt

Babashka Conf

•Full Playlist for Babashka Conf 2026

•Go for Clojure programmers - Rahul De - Babashka-tv

•Flower, a static site generator with a clojure template language - Jynn Nelson - Babashka-tv

•Easy Made Complex - Josh Glover - Babashka-tv

•More with Less - David Nolen - Babashka-tv

Mike Møller Nielsen

•Clojure when and how to use Sets - Mike Møller Nielsen

•Clojure Multiarity functions - Mike Møller Nielsen

•Clojure Variadic function - Mike Møller Nielsen

•Clojure Anonymous Functions - Mike Møller Nielsen

Blogs, articles, and news

•nREPL Protocol – spec - Bozhidar Batsov

•neat: a language-agnostic nREPL client for Emacs - Bozhidar Batsov

•nREPL Forever - Bozhidar Batsov

•(nth (concat) 9) - Ana Carolina, Arthur Fücher

•Learning Path to create Clofer - Karthikeyan A K

•Implementation of Dark Mode in OrgPad - Pavel Klavík, Kamila Klavíková

•Machine learning using Clojure, libpython-clj2, and Pytorch – Clojure Civitas - Jan Wedekind

•Simple Apps with Clojure, HTMX and Pipelines - Rocky Jaiswal

Libraries and Tools

Debut release

•ring-node-adapter - Ring adapter for Node.js

•neat - A small, language-agnostic nREPL client for Emacs

•code-bubble - A Clojure dev-time UI inspired by Code Bubbles

•clj-code-search - Per-function semantic index for Clojure/CLJS, exposed as a code-search CLI for AI coding agents.

•phel-doom - Terminal DOOM-lite raycaster built in Phel (Lisp on PHP). 256-color ANSI, 5 procedural levels — a real-world Phel showcase app.

•gojava - A Go reimplementation of selected parts of the Java standard library

•clojure-android - The Clojure programming language for Android

•clojure-android-demo - Clojure Android Demo

•muschel - Bash interpreter with git-like memory and fine grained access control.

•fulcro-tui - A JLine-base TUI wrapper, allowing you to write TUI projects in CLJ or Babashka via Fulcro

Updates

•core.unify 0.7.3 - Unification library

•tools.gitlibs 2.6.217 - API for retrieving, caching, and programatically accessing git libraries

•glogi 1.4.177 - A ClojureScript logging library based on goog.log

•openapi-v3-validator 0.2.7 - A pure-clojure library for validating ring requests & responses against OpenAPI v3 specifications.

•mailman 0.4.0 - Simple event routing library

•refactor-nrepl 3.13.0 - nREPL middleware to support refactorings in an editor agnostic way

•fulcro-spec 3.2.10 - A library that wraps clojure.test for a better BDD testing experience.

•drip 1.0.0-alpha41 - Drip is a transactional job queue for MariaDB, PostgreSQL, and SQLite

•cursive 2026.2-eap1 - Cursive: The IDE for beautiful Clojure code

•dtype-next 11.022 - A Clojure library designed to aid in the implementation of high performance algorithms and systems.

•tech.ml.dataset 8.023 - A Clojure high performance data processing system

•rephrase 1.0.2 - Rephrase exceptions to be more beginner-friendly

•bareforge 0.7.0 - Companion visual builder for BareDOM web components. Drag components, declare reactive state, export fully interactive CLJS or JS project

•statecharts 1.4.0-RC16 - A Statechart library for CLJ(S)

•stratum 0.3.72 - Versioned, fast and scalable columnar database.

•teensyp 0.5.4 - A small, zero-dependency Clojure TCP server that uses Java NIO

•generate 1.0.57 - code generation for Clojure projects

•r11y 1.0.7 - CLI tool for extracting URLs as Markdown

•cli 0.9.68 - Turn Clojure functions into CLIs!

•html 0.2.4 - Html generation library inspired by squint’s html tag

•next-jdbc 1.3.1108 - A modern low-level Clojure wrapper for JDBC-based access to databases.

•ring-jetty9-adapter 0.39.4 - An enhanced version of jetty adapter for ring, with additional features like websockets, http/2 and http/3

•svar 0.5.9 - Type‑safe LLM output for Clojure. Works with any text‑only model.

•neil 0.3.70 - A CLI to add common aliases and features to deps.edn-based projects

•gloat 0.1.44 - Glojure AOT Tool

•encore 3.161.0 - Core utils library for Clojure/Script

•clj-kondo 2026.05.25 - Static analyzer and linter for Clojure code that sparks joy

•phel-lang 0.40.0 - 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.

•spindel 0.1.13 - Cross-platform FRP runtime with a git-like memory model.

•memento 2.1.74 - Clojure Memoization project

•baredom 3.3.0 - BareDOM: Lightweight CLJS UI components built on web standards (Custom Elements, Shadow DOM, ES modules). No framework, just the DOM

•fulcro 3.10.0-RC1 - A library for development of single-page full-stack web applications in clj/cljs