OSS Updates of January - February 2022

In this post I'll give updates about open source I worked on during January and February 2022.

Sponsors

But first off, I'd like to thank all the sponsors and contributors that make this work possible. To name a few: Clojurists Together, Roam Research, Adgoji, Cognitect, Nextjournal.

If you'd like to sponsor this work or see who else is sponsoring, you can do so via the following channels:

• Github Sponsors
• OpenCollective (also see the clj-kondo one)
• Clojurists Together

Babashka

Native, fast starting Clojure interpreter for scripting.

Published versions: 0.7.4 - 0.7.6.

Read the changelog here.

Highlights:

• Add new namespace from clojure 1.11: clojure.math
• Performance improvements (see SCI).
• Compatibility with more Clojure libraries and lots of small bug fixes.

I also submitted a PR to cli-matic to fix the long standing issue about babashka compatibility.

Please leave some feedback about babashka in the Q1 Survey!

Clj-kondo

A linter for Clojure (code) that sparks joy.

Published versions: 2022.01.13, 2022.01.15, 2022.02.09.

Read the changelog here.

Highlights:

• Maybe new linters added: :conflicting-fn-arity, :clj-kondo-config, :reduce-without-init, :redundant-fn-wrapper, linting for bb.edn config files.
• Improvements with regards to type inferences and map results
• Contributed to clj-kondo config in better-cond so everyone who uses the library gets correct and useful linting feedback.

SCI

Configurable Clojure interpreter suitable for scripting and Clojure DSLs.

Published versions: v0.2.9 - v0.3.1.

Read the changelog here.

• Fix compatibility with Graal.js
• Performance improvements for loops and vararg function calls.
• JS interop fixes / improvements

Nbb

Ad-hoc CLJS scripting on Node.js using SCI.

Published versions: v0.1.1 - v0.2.0.

Read the changelog here.

Highlights:

• See SCI improvements.
• Bundled library updates

Scittle The Small Clojure Interpreter exposed for usage in browser script tags

Published versions: v0.1.0 - v0.1.2.

Read the changelog here.

Highlights:

• Upgrade SCI with performance and JS interop improvements
• Expose more Reagent features

Obb

Ad-hoc ClojureScript scripting of Mac applications via Apple's Open Scripting Architecture.

Published versions: 0.0.1 - 0.0.2

Read the changelog here.

Highlights:

• This is a new project!

Fs

File system utility library for Clojure.

Published versions: 0.1.3.

Read the changelog here.

Highlights:

• New functions create-temp-file and zip
• Compatibility with com.google.cloud/google-cloud-nio

Process

Clojure wrapper for java.lang.ProcessBuilder.

Published versions: 0.1.1. Read the changelog here.

Highlights:

• Support appending to files in addition to overwriting them.

Pod-babashka-go-sqlite-3

A babashka pod for interacting with sqlite3.

Released versions: 0.1.0.

Highlights:

• Bump sqlite version and support single string rather than wrapped in vector.

Pod-babashka-buddy

A pod around buddy core (Cryptographic Api for Clojure).

Released versions: 0.1.0.

Highlights: expose more namespaces.

Pod-babashka-aws

AWS pod wrapping the Cognitect aws-api library.

Released versions: 0.1.1-0.1.2.

Read the changelog here.

Highlights:

• Provide aarch64 binary.

Published: 2022-02-27

Tagged: clojure oss updates