[HN Gopher] Clojure 1.12.0 is now available
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Clojure 1.12.0 is now available
Author : msolli
Score : 70 points
Date : 2024-09-05 20:12 UTC (2 hours ago)
(HTM) web link (clojure.org)
(TXT) w3m dump (clojure.org)
| tgerdin wrote:
| Looks like a pretty solid release, very happy that Clojure is
| still going strong!
| haolez wrote:
| Is it going strong? I'm evaluating it for a new project. I'm
| considering it together with Clara[0]. However, it does give a
| vibe that it's not as mainstream as it was before and that the
| ecosystem is more sparse than what is once was.
|
| I'm not trying to troll. I want to choose it. It seems like a
| good engineering decision to me, but if it's nosediving in
| popularity and contributors, this might bite me back in the
| near future.
|
| [0] https://www.clara-rules.org/
| hlship wrote:
| Clojure's slow, deliberate development pace confuses people.
| The core team takes backwards compatibility very seriously.
| What you see with each new Clojure release is generally
| improved performance, better Java interop, and a smattering
| of new features. This is doubly true for 1.12 which is doing
| quite a bit of invisible work to make interop considerably
| better.
|
| So what you don't see is a constant flux of "innovation"
| followed by a community having to adapt to those innovations.
| People pull Clojure examples out of books that are 12 or more
| years old and they still run.
|
| I think there's some very exciting things in the Clojure
| space, such as Clerk (https://github.com/nextjournal/clerk)
| for live notebooks, and Babashka
| (https://github.com/borkdude/babashka) for amazing (and
| amazingly fast) scripting.
| Barrin92 wrote:
| From the last view developer surveys I've paid attention to
| it didn't seem like Clojure was growing much but it's
| definitely still large enough of an ecosystem to be a valid
| choice. So, depends on your definition of 'going strong'. On
| its merits it's definitely still a great choice, I never
| really thought of it as particularly mainstream.
| jdminhbg wrote:
| Such a pleasure to get a boatload of new features and all my code
| just runs on it because of the hard work dedicated to avoid
| breaking changes.
| diggan wrote:
| Lovely to see add-libs and sync-deps, aren't many (any?) reasons
| to close down a session at all now.
|
| This release feels like it had a very different scope from
| previous releases, contains a lot of stuff, which is exciting to
| see! But I hope it doesn't end up like a hairball a few releases
| down from increase of pace or something.
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