OSS updates November and December 2024

In this post I'll give updates about open source I worked on during November and December 2024.

To see previous OSS updates, go here.

Updates

Clojurists Together announced that I'm among the 5 developers who were voted to receive the Long Term Funding in 2025. You can see the announcement here. Thanks so much!

Here are updates about the projects/libraries I've worked on in the last two months.

babashka: native, fast starting Clojure interpreter for scripting.
- #1771: *e* in REPL should contain exception thrown by user, not a wrapped one
- #1777 Add java.nio.file.attribute.UserDefinedFileAttributeView
- #1776 Add java.nio.file.attribute.PosixFileAttributes
- #1761 Support calling clojure.lang.RT/iter
- #1760 For compatibility with Fireworks v0.10.3, added the following to :instance-checks entry in babashka.impl.classes/classes(@paintparty)
  - clojure.lang.PersistentArrayMap$TransientArrayMap
  - clojure.lang.PersistentHashMap$TransientHashMap
  - clojure.lang.PersistentVector$TransientVector
  - java.lang.NoSuchFieldException
  - java.util.AbstractMap
  - java.util.AbstractSet
  - java.util.AbstractList
- #1760 For compatibility with Fireworks v0.10.3, added volatile? entry to babashka.impl.clojure.core/core-extras(@paintparty)
- Bump babashka.cli to 0.8.61
- Bump clj-yaml to 1.0.29
- #1768: Add taoensso.timbre color-str function
- Add classes:
  - javax.crypto.KeyAgreement
  - java.security.KeyPairGenerator
  - java.security.KeyPair
  - java.security.spec.ECGenParameterSpec
  - java.security.spec.PKCS8EncodedKeySpec
  - java.security.spec.X509EncodedKeySpec
  - java.security.Signature
- Add java.util.concurrent.CompletionStage
- Bump core.async to 1.7.701
- Bump org.babashka/cli to 0.8.162
- Include jsoup for HTML parsing. This makes bb compatible with the hickory library (and possibly other libraries?).
- #1752: include java.lang.SecurityException for java.net.http.HttpClient support (@grzm)
- #1748: add clojure.core/ensure
- Upgrade taoensso/timbreto v6.6.0
- Upgrade babashka.http-client to v0.4.22
- Add :git/sha from build to bb describe output (@lispyclouds)
- Fix NPE with determining if executing from self-contained executable
squint: CLJS syntax to JS compiler
- Fix #255: fn literal with rest args
- #596: fix unary division to produce reciprocal
- #592: fix clj->js to not process custom classes
- #585: fix clj->js to realize lazy seqs into arrays
- #586: support extending protocol to nil
- #581: support docstring in defprotocol
- #582: add extend-protocol
- Add delay
- Fix #575: map? should not return true for array
- Fix #577: support $default + :refer
- Fix #572: prevent vite page reload
CLI: Turn Clojure functions into CLIs!
- Fix #109: allow options to start with a number
scittle: Execute Clojure(Script) directly from browser script tags via SCI
- #99: make js/import work
- #55: create gh-pages dir before using.
- #89: allow evaluate_script_tags to specify individual scripts.
- #87: prod build on fresh checkout fails

clj-kondo: static analyzer and linter for Clojure code that sparks joy.
- Unreleased
- #2272: Lint for nil return from if-like forms
- Add printf to vars linted by analyze-format. (@tomdl89)
- #2272: Report var usage in if-let etc condition as always truthy
- #2272: Report var usage in if-not condition as always truthy
- #2433: false positive redundant ignore with hook
- Document :cljc config option. (@NoahTheDuke)
- #2439: uneval may apply to nnext form if reader conditional doesn't yield a form (@NoahTheDuke)
- #2431: only apply redundant-nested-call linter for nested exprs
- Relax :redundant-nested-call for comp, concat, every-pred and some-fn since it may affect performance
- #2446: false positive :redundant-ignore
- #2448: redundant nested call in hook gen'ed code
- #2424: fix combination of :config-in-ns and :discouraged-namespace
- 2024.11.14
- #2212: NEW linter: :redundant-nested-call (@tomdl89), set to level :info by default
- Bump :redundant-ignore, :redundant-str-call linters to level :info
- #1784: detect :redundant-do in catch
- #2410: add --report-level flag
- #2416: detect empty require and :require forms (@NoahTheDuke)
- #1786: Support gen-interface (by suppressing unresolved symbols)
- #2407: support ignore hint on called symbol
- #2420: Detect uneven number of clauses in cond-> and cond->> (@tomdl89)
- #2415: false positive type checking issue with str/replace and ^String annotation
nbb: Scripting in Clojure on Node.js using SCI
- 1.3.196 (2024-11-25)
- Add locking macro for compatibility with CLJS
- 1.3.195 (2024-11-07)
- #343: support :reload for reloading CLJS namespaces and JS code
rewrite-clj: Rewrite Clojure code and edn
- Fix parsing of b// symbol
pod-babashka-go-sqlite3: A babashka pod for interacting with sqlite3
- #19: Restore mac intel support (this time for real)
tools-deps-native and tools.bbuild: use tools.deps directly from babashka
- Fix #30: pod won't run on newer versions of macOS
http-client: babashka's http-client
- #73: Allow implicit ports when specifying the URL as a map (@lvh)
- #71: Link back to sources in release artifact(@lread)

Other projects

These are (some of the) other projects I'm involved with but little to no activity happened in the past month.

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SCI: Configurable Clojure/Script interpreter suitable for scr- cherry: Experimental ClojureScript to ES6 module compil- http-server: serve static assets
bbin: Install any Babashka script or project with one comman
sci.configs: A collection of ready to be used SCI configs.
- Added a configuration for cljs.spec.alpha and related namespaces
qualify-methods
- Initial release of experimental tool to rewrite instance calls to use fully qualified methods (Clojure 1.12 only0
clerk: Moldable Live Programming for Clojure
- Add support for :require-cljs which allows you to use .cljs files for render functions
- Add support for nREPL for developing render functions
deps.clj: A faithful port of the clojure CLI bash script to Clojure
- Upgrade/sync with clojure CLI v1.12.0.1479
process: Clojure library for shelling out / spawning sub-processes
- Work has started to support prepending output (in support for babashka parallel tasks). Stay tuned.
neil: A CLI to add common aliases and features to deps.edn-based projects.
edamame: Configurable EDN/Clojure parser with location metadata
quickdoc: Quick and minimal API doc generation for Clojure
fs - File system utility library for Clojure
tools: a set of bbin installable scripts
sci.nrepl: nREPL server for SCI projects that run in the browser
html: Html generation library inspired by squint's html tag
rewrite-edn: Utility lib on top of rewrite-clj with common operations to update EDN while preserving whitespace and comments
instaparse-bb: Use instaparse from babashka
babashka.json: babashka JSON library/adapter
squint-macros: a couple of macros that stand-in for applied-science/js-interop and promesa to make CLJS projects compatible with squint and/or cherry.
grasp: Grep Clojure code using clojure.spec regexes
lein-clj-kondo: a leiningen plugin for clj-kondo
http-kit: Simple, high-performance event-driven HTTP client+server for Clojure.
babashka.nrepl: The nREPL server from babashka as a library, so it can be used from other SCI-based CLIs
jet: CLI to transform between JSON, EDN, YAML and Transit using Clojure
pod-babashka-fswatcher: babashka filewatcher pod
lein2deps: leiningen to deps.edn converter
sql pods: babashka pods for SQL databases
cljs-showcase: Showcase CLJS libs using SCI
babashka.book: Babashka manual
pod-babashka-buddy: A pod around buddy core (Cryptographic Api for Clojure).
gh-release-artifact: Upload artifacts to Github releases idempotently
carve - Remove unused Clojure vars
4ever-clojure - Pure CLJS version of 4clojure, meant to run forever!
pod-babashka-lanterna: Interact with clojure-lanterna from babashka
joyride: VSCode CLJS scripting and REPL (via SCI)
clj2el: transpile Clojure to elisp
deflet: make let-expressions REPL-friendly!
deps.add-lib: Clojure 1.12's add-lib feature for leiningen and/or other environments without a specific version of the clojure CLI

Published: 2024-12-31

Tagged: clojure oss updates

Thanks for giving!

Dear sponsors,

It's almost Thanksgiving again. We don't have this tradition here in The Netherlands, but I do think it's a good to have a special day to count our blessings. I feel very blessed because of your ongoing support. My Clojure projects wouldn't be as well maintained and fully featured if I didn't have the sponsoring that I have currently.

You can read about the past year of OSS updates (and further back) here. Main projects are still clj-kondo, babashka, SCI, scittle, squint.

You can read about my plans for the next year here (a vote would be appreciated as well if you happen to be a CT sponsor!).

Feel free to reach out if you want to contact me about anything. Here, on Clojurians Slack, e-mail (michielborkent@gmail.com) or otherwise. I'd love to chat and catch up with you about how you are using (some of) my projects.

Here's to another year of Clojure OSS! Thanks for your support!

With gratitude,

Michiel Borkent / @borkdude

PS: if you aren't sponsoring, but are interested, here are the main ways to do so:

Sponsor info

Published: 2024-11-27

Tagged: sponsors

OSS updates September and October 2024

In this post I'll give updates about open source I worked on during September and October 2024.

To see previous OSS updates, go here.

Updates

In September I visited Heart of Clojure where Christian, Teodor and I did a workshop on babashka. The first workshop was soon fully booked so we even did a second one and had a lot of fun doing so. It was so good to see familiar Clojure faces in real life again. Thanks Arne and Gaiwan team for organizing this amazing conference.

Although I didn't make it to the USA for the Clojure conj in October, Alex Miller did invite me to appear towards the end of his closing talk when he mentioned that 90% of survey respondents used babashka.

If you are interested in a full stack web framework with babashka and squint, check out borkweb.

Here are updates about the projects/libraries I've worked on in the last two months.

clj-kondo: static analyzer and linter for Clojure code that sparks joy.
- Unreleased
- #1784: detect :redundant-do in catch
- #2410: add --report-level flag
- 2024.09.27
- #2404: fix regression with metadata on node in hook caused by :redundant-ignore linter
- 2024.09.26
- #2366: new linter: :redundant-ignore. See docs
- #2386: fix regression introduced in #2364 in letfn
- #2389: add new hooks-api/callstack function
- #2392: don't skip jars that were analyzed with --skip-lint
- #2395: enum constant call warnings
- #2400: deftype and defrecord constructors can be used with Type/new
- #2394: add :sort option to :unsorted-required-namespaces linter to enable case-sensitive sort to match other tools
- #2384: recognize gen/fmap var in cljs.spec.gen.alpha
babashka: native, fast starting Clojure interpreter for scripting.
- #1752: include java.lang.SecurityException for java.net.http.HttpClient support
- #1748: add clojure.core/ensure
- Upgrade to taoensso/timbre v6.6.0
- Upgrade to GraalVM 23
- #1743: fix new fully qualified instance method in call position with GraalVM 23
- Clojure 1.12 interop: method thunks, FI coercion, array notation (see below)
- Upgrade SCI reflector based on clojure 1.12 and remove specific workaround for Thread/sleep interop
- Add tools.reader.edn/read
- Fix #1741: (taoensso.timbre/spy) now relies on macros from taoensso.encore previously not available in bb
- Upgrade Clojure to 1.12.0
- #1722: add new clojure 1.12 vars
- #1720: include new clojure 1.12's clojure.java.process
- #1719: add new clojure 1.12 clojure.repl.deps namespace. Only calls with explicit versions are supported.
- #1598: use Rosetta on CircleCI to build x64 images
- #1716: expose babashka.http-client.interceptors namespace
- #1707: support aset on primitive array
- #1676: restore compatibility with newest at-at version (1.3.58)
- Bump SCI
- Bump fs
- Bump process
- Bump deps.clj
- Bump http-client
- Bump clj-yaml
- Bump edamame
- Bump rewrite-clj
- Add java.io.LineNumberReader
SCI: Configurable Clojure/Script interpreter suitable for scripting and Clojure DSLs
- Fix #942: improve error location of invalid destructuring
- Fix #917: support new Clojure 1.12 Java interop: String/new, String/.length and Integer/parseInt as fns
- Fix #925: support new Clojure 1.12 array notation: String/1, byte/2
- Fix #926: Support add-watch on vars in CLJS
- Support aset on primitive array using reflection
- Fix #928: record constructor supports optional meta + ext map
- Fix #934: :allow may contain namespaced symbols
- Fix #937: throw when copying non-existent namespace
- Update sci.impl.Reflector (used for implementing JVM interop) to match Clojure 1.12
squint: CLJS syntax to JS compiler
- Fix watcher and compiler not overriding squint.edn configurations with command line options.
- Allow passing --extension and --paths via CLI
- Fix #563: prioritize refer over core built-in
- Update chokidar to v4 which reduces the number of dependencies
- BREAKING: Dynamic CSS in #html must now be explicitly passed as map literal: (let [m {:color :green}] #html [:div {:style {:& m}}]). Fixes issue when using lit-html in combination with classMap. See demo
- #556: fix referring to var in other namespace via global object in REPL mode
- Pass --repl opts to watch subcommand in CLI
- #552: fix REPL output with hyphen in ns name
- Ongoing work on browser REPL. Stay tuned.
cherry: Experimental ClojureScript to ES6 module compiler
- Fix referring to vars in other namespaces globally
- Allow defclass to be referenced through other macros, e.g. as cherry.core/defclass
- Fix emitting keyword in HTML
- #138: Support #html literals, ported from squint
http-client: babashka's http-client
- #68 Fix accidental URI path decoding in uri-with-query (@hxtmdev)
- #71: Link back to sources in release artifact (@lread)
- #73: Allow implicit ports when specifying the URL as a map (@lvh)
http-server: serve static assets
- #16: support range requests (jmglov)
- #13: add an ending slash to the dir link, and don't encode the slashes (@KDr2)
- #12: Add headers to index page (rather than just file responses)
bbin: Install any Babashka script or project with one command
- Fix #88: bbin ls with 0-length files doesn't crash
scittle: Execute Clojure(Script) directly from browser script tags via SCI
- Add cljs.pprint/code-dispatch and cljs.pprint/with-pprint-dispatch
clojurescript
- Throw when calling ana-api/ns-publics on non-existing ns
neil: A CLI to add common aliases and features to deps.edn-based projects.
- #241: ignore missing deps file (instead of throwing) in neil new (@bobisageek)
sci.configs: A collection of ready to be used SCI configs.
- Added a configuration for cljs.spec.alpha and related namespaces
nbb: Scripting in Clojure on Node.js using SCI
- Include cljs.spec.alpha, cljs.spec.gen.alpha, cljs.spec.test.alpha
qualify-methods
- Initial release of experimental tool to rewrite instance calls to use fully qualified methods (Clojure 1.12 only0
clerk: Moldable Live Programming for Clojure
- Add support for :require-cljs which allows you to use .cljs files for render functions
- Add support for nREPL for developing render functions
deps.clj: A faithful port of the clojure CLI bash script to Clojure
- Upgrade/sync with clojure CLI v1.12.0.1479
process: Clojure library for shelling out / spawning sub-processes
- Work has started to support prepending output (in support for babashka parallel tasks). Stay tuned.

Other projects

These are (some of the) other projects I'm involved with but little to no activity happened in the past month.

Click for more details

edamame: Configurable EDN/Clojure parser with location metadata
quickdoc: Quick and minimal API doc generation for Clojure
CLI: Turn Clojure functions into CLIs!
fs - File system utility library for Clojure
tools: a set of bbin installable scripts
sci.nrepl: nREPL server for SCI projects that run in the browser
html: Html generation library inspired by squint's html tag
rewrite-edn: Utility lib on top of rewrite-clj with common operations to update EDN while preserving whitespace and comments
instaparse-bb: Use instaparse from babashka
babashka.json: babashka JSON library/adapter
tools-deps-native and tools.bbuild: use tools.deps directly from babashka
squint-macros: a couple of macros that stand-in for applied-science/js-interop and promesa to make CLJS projects compatible with squint and/or cherry.
grasp: Grep Clojure code using clojure.spec regexes
lein-clj-kondo: a leiningen plugin for clj-kondo
http-kit: Simple, high-performance event-driven HTTP client+server for Clojure.
babashka.nrepl: The nREPL server from babashka as a library, so it can be used from other SCI-based CLIs
jet: CLI to transform between JSON, EDN, YAML and Transit using Clojure
pod-babashka-go-sqlite3: A babashka pod for interacting with sqlite3
pod-babashka-fswatcher: babashka filewatcher pod
lein2deps: leiningen to deps.edn converter
sql pods: babashka pods for SQL databases
cljs-showcase: Showcase CLJS libs using SCI
babashka.book: Babashka manual
rewrite-clj: Rewrite Clojure code and edn
pod-babashka-buddy: A pod around buddy core (Cryptographic Api for Clojure).
gh-release-artifact: Upload artifacts to Github releases idempotently
carve - Remove unused Clojure vars
4ever-clojure - Pure CLJS version of 4clojure, meant to run forever!
pod-babashka-lanterna: Interact with clojure-lanterna from babashka
joyride: VSCode CLJS scripting and REPL (via SCI)
clj2el: transpile Clojure to elisp
deflet: make let-expressions REPL-friendly!
deps.add-lib: Clojure 1.12's add-lib feature for leiningen and/or other environments without a specific version of the clojure CLI

Published: 2024-11-01

Tagged: clojure oss updates

REPL adventures

OSS updates November and December 2024

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Thanks for giving!

OSS updates September and October 2024

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