OSS Updates of March - April 2022

In this post I'll give updates about open source I worked on during March and April 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

Clj-kondo

A linter for Clojure (code) that sparks joy.

Published versions: 2022.03.04, 2022.03.08, 2022.03.09, 2022.04.08, 2022.04.23, 2022.04.25

Read the changelog here.

Highlights:

• New linters: :namespace-mismatch, :non-arg-vec-return-type-hint, :keyword-binding, :discouraged-var
• More analysis output for Java classes, protocols and multi-methods

Babashka

Native, fast starting Clojure interpreter for scripting.

Published versions: 0.7.7, 0.7.8, 0.8.0, 0.8.1

Read the changelog here.

Highlights:

• Declarative pod configuration in bb.edn
• Compatibility with specter
• Fixes for reify, calls to interface default methods are now correctly implemented

SCI

Configurable Clojure interpreter suitable for scripting and Clojure DSLs.

Published versions: 0.3.2, 0.3.3, 0.3.4

Read the changelog here.

Summary: many small incremental improvements.

Nbb

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

Published versions: v0.2.1 - v0.3.10.

Read the changelog here.

Highlights:

• Features mechanism which allows you to re-package nbb with your favorite CLJS libraries.
• Videos: London Clojurians, On the Code Again
• nbb.core/await REPL helper to "block" on promises and get their results
• nREPL completion improvements

Joyride

Modify VSCode by executing ClojureScript (SCI) code in your REPL and/or run scripts via keyboard shortcuts.

Read the changelog here.

This is a new project!

Grasp

Grep Clojure code using clojure.spec regexes.

Highlights:

• Support :keep-fn, allowing you to keep track of the conformed value in one go

Obb

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

Published versions: 0.0.3

Read the changelog here.

Neil

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

Highlights:

• List available versions
• Dependency search
• New license subcommand

Rewrite-edn

Utility lib on top of rewrite-clj with common operations to update EDN while preserving whitespace and comments.

Read the changelog here.

Tools.misc

Tools library similar to clojure.tools.logging but for misc. tools.

So far this is just an experiment, but join the discussion if you want.

Fs

File system utility library for Clojure.

Published versions: 0.1.4.

Read the changelog here.

Published: 2022-04-29

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