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.

Sponsors

I'd like to thank all the sponsors and contributors that make this work possible. Without you, the below projects would not be as mature or wouldn't exist or be maintained at all.

Current top tier sponsors:

• Clojurists Together
• Roam Research
• Nextjournal
• Nubank

Open the details section for more info about sponsoring.

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.

Published: 2024-12-31

Tagged: clojure oss updates