OSS updates April 2023

In this post I'll give updates about open source I worked on during April 2023.

To see previous OSS updates, go here.

Babashka-conf

Babashka-conf is happening June 10th in Berlin. Save the date and/or submit your babashka/clojure-related talk or workshop in the CfP!

Sponsors

I'd like to thank all the sponsors and contributors that make this work possible! Top sponsors:

• Clojurists Together
• Roam Research
• Nextjournal
• Toyokumo
• Cognitect
• Kepler16
• Adgoji

If you want to ensure that the projects I work on are sustainably maintained, you can sponsor this work in the following ways. Thank you!

• Github Sponsors
• The Babaska or Clj-kondo OpenCollective
• Ko-fi
• Patreon
• Clojurists Together

If you're used to sponsoring through some other means which isn't listed above, please get in touch.

On to the projects that I've been working on!

Projects

The following projects had updates in the last month. Note that only highlights are mentioned and not a full overview of all changes. See the project's changelogs for all changes.

• clj-kondo: static analyzer and linter for Clojure code that sparks joy.
  • #1196: show language context in .cljc files with :output {:langs true}. See docs.
  • #2030: Add a new :discouraged-tag linter for discouraged tag literals. See the docs.
  • #2058: warn about #() and #"" in `.edn files
• babashka: native, fast starting Clojure interpreter for scripting
  • Released 1.3.177 - 1.3.179
  • #1541: respect bb.edn adjacent to invoked file. This eases writing system-global scripts from projects without using bbin. See docs.
  • See the complete CHANGELOG.
• cherry Experimental ClojureScript to ES6 module compiler
  • Improve cherry.embed
• SCI: Configurable Clojure/Script interpreter suitable for scripting and Clojure DSLs
  • Better error message when trying to recur across try
  • Improvement for error locations in multiple threads
• edamame: Configurable EDN/Clojure parser with location metadata
  • Improvements for reading namespaced maps
• babashka.book: Babashka manual
  • Several corrections
  • Dynamic :exec-args
  • Script-adjacent bb.edn docs
• CLI: Turn Clojure functions into CLIs!
  • Support --no-option and parse as {:option false}
  • Support grouped aliase like -ome as {:o true, :m true, :e true}
• http-client: Babashka's http-client
  • Support java.net.URI directly in :uri option
  • Better :ssl-config option support
  • Better :proxy option support
• pod-babashka-go-sqlite3: A babashka pod for interacting with sqlite3
  • Better error message when connection is not a string
• nbb: Scripting in Clojure on Node.js using SCI
  • Fix :local/root deps in nbb.edn when not invoking from current working directory
  • Fix regression, cljs.core/PersistentQueue.EMPTY no longer working
• instaparse-bb
  • Add transform function
• jet: CLI to transform between JSON, EDN, YAML and Transit using Clojure
  • Add option to elide commas
• deps.clj: A faithful port of the clojure CLI bash script to Clojure
  • Catch up with clojure CLI changes

Contributions to other projects

• clojurescript:
  • PR 202: a macroexpand fix
  • PR 203: a symbol optimization fix
• malli: cherry integration
• clerk: cherry integration
• clojure-lsp: integrated a new clj-kondo feature: showing the languages in a CLJC context

Other projects

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

• process: Clojure library for shelling out / spawning sub-processes
• quickdoc: Quick and minimal API doc generation for Clojure
• rewrite-clj: Rewrite Clojure code and edn
• sql pods: babashka pods for SQL databases
• squint: CLJS syntax to JS compiler
• pod-babashka-buddy: A pod around buddy core (Cryptographic Api for Clojure).
• gh-release-artifact: Upload artifacts to Github releases idempotently
• neil: A CLI to add common aliases and features to deps.edn-based projects
• cljs-showcase: Showcase CLJS libs using SCI
• carve - Remove unused Clojure vars
• grasp: Grep Clojure code using clojure.spec regexes
• scittle: Execute Clojure(Script) directly from browser script tags via SCI
• quickblog: Light-weight static blog engine for Clojure and babashka
• sci.configs: A collection of ready to be used SCI configs
• lein2deps: leiningen to deps.edn converter
• 4ever-clojure - Pure CLJS version of 4clojure, meant to run forever!
• fs - File system utility library for Clojure
• pod-babashka-lanterna: Interact with clojure-lanterna from babashka
• pod-babashka-fswatcher: babashka filewatcher pod
• joyride: VSCode CLJS scripting and REPL (via SCI)
• clj2el: transpile Clojure to elisp
• deflet: make let-expressions REPL-friendly!
• babashka.json: babashka JSON library/adapter

Published: 2023-04-30

Tagged: clojure oss updates