OSS updates May 2023

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

To see previous OSS updates, go here.

Babashka-conf

Babashka-conf is happening June 10th in Berlin. Only a few tickets left!

Sponsors

I'd like to thank all the sponsors and contributors that make this work possible! Open the details section for more info.

Updates

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.

• Preparations for babashka conf are in full swing and I'm preparing a talk with the title 'Growing an ecosystem'.
• This month I've had the honor to visit the JUXT 10 year anniversary in London and met a lot of fellow Clojurians over there.
• Babashka and SCI will be featured at the last iteration of Strange Loop!
• My OSS work is funded by Clojurists Together in Q2
• clj-kondo: static analyzer and linter for Clojure code that sparks joy.
  • Version 2023.05.18 - 2023.05.26 were released. Full changelogs here. Highlights:
  • Linter :uninitialized-var moved from default :level :off to :warning
  • #2065: new linter :equals-true: suggest using (true? x) over (= true x) (defaults to :level :off).
  • #2066: new linters :plus-one and :minus-one: suggest using (inc x) over (+ x 1) (and similarly for dec and -, defaults to :level :off)
  • #2058: warn about #() and #"" in .edn files
• babashka: native, fast starting Clojure interpreter for scripting.
  • Released 1.3.180, mostly a maintenance release
  • See the complete CHANGELOG
• scittle: Execute Clojure(Script) directly from browser script tags via SCI
  • #58: build system for creating scittle distribution with custom libraries. See plugins/demo.
  • Use window.location.hostname for WebSocket connection instead of hardcoding "localhost" (@pyrmont)
  • Upgrade sci.configs to "33bd51e53700b224b4cb5bda59eb21b62f962745"
  • Update nREPL implementation: implement eldoc (info, lookup) (@benjamin-asdf)
• deps.clj: A faithful port of the clojure CLI bash script to Clojure
  • Introduce all new programmatic API
  • Automatically use file when exceeding Windows argument length
• deps.add-lib: Clojure 1.12's add-lib feature for leiningen and/or other environments without a specific version of the clojure CLI
  • First clojars release
• nbb: Scripting in Clojure on Node.js using SCI
  • Nbb is now compatible with bun. To run nbb in a bun project, use bunx --bun nbb.
• squint: CLJS syntax to JS compiler
  • Fix import with $default
• cherry Experimental ClojureScript to ES6 module compiler
  • Support with-out-str
• http-client: Babashka's http-client
  • Add :authenticator option
• sci.configs: A collection of ready to be used SCI configs.
  • This project now has a configuration for datascript, for anyone who wants to use SCI together with datascript. See this commit.
• SCI: Configurable Clojure/Script interpreter suitable for scripting and Clojure DSLs
  • Support :require-macros
• process: Clojure library for shelling out / spawning sub-processes
  • Support :pre-start-fn in exec
  • Allow passing :cmd in map argument
  • Better testing for exec by @lread
• fs - File system utility library for Clojure
  • :paths argument for fs/which by @lread
  • Support inputstream in fs/copy
  • Add fs/owner to return owner of file

Other projects

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

Published: 2023-05-30

Tagged: clojure oss updates