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**The REPL**

Daniel Compton talks to Clojure and ClojureScript developers about the libraries and systems they have built. They dive into the nitty-gritty details and technical challenges the authors faced.

Latest Episodes:

46: ClojureDart with Christophe Grand and Baptiste Dupuch Dec 24, 2022

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Christophe Grand and Baptiste Dupuch talk about ClojureDart, a new dialect of Clojure

45: Data Rabbit with Ryan Robitaille Oct 03, 2022

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Ryan Robitaille talks about data visualisation, and building a visual coding environment in Clojure

44: Jank with Jeaye Wilkerson Sep 17, 2022

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Jeaye Wilkerson talks about compilers, LLVM, and building a dynamic, compiled Clojure

Note: I used the wrong link initially when publishing this episode. If you are hearing the wrong conversation, delete the episode and re-download it. Thanks!

Jeaye has a background in C++ systems programming, focusing on games and game engines. After 5 years of that, he co-founded an esports tournament startup written in full-stack Clojure for another 5 years. These days, he’s at Electronic Arts (EA) building tooling used to make some of the world’s top games.

In each space, C++, Rust, Clojure, NixOS, etc, Jeaye aims to make an impact with his open source projects. For Clojure, at first, that was with Orchestra. Now, the flagship is jank.

Jank
Cling - CERN’s interactive C++ interpreter
Immer - Immutable data structures for C++
Swig - Generate bindings for C/C++ code
GraalVM Polyglot
Orchestra
Compiler Spotlight
q3
Jeaye’s GitHub Sponsors profile
Compiler Spotlight on Fennel

43: Clojure, The Essential Reference with Renzo Borgatti Nov 13, 2021

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Renzo Borgatti talks about what he learnt while creating his reference of the Clojure standard library, and about the re:Clojure conference.

Clojure, The Essential Reference, use the discount code “podrepl20” for a 40% discount on all products
seque - clojure.core
History of Clojure paper - A History of Clojure talk, A History of Clojure (PDF)
use-context-classloader
- get rid of root classloader commit
definline
Contrib Libraries
Asciidoc
reborg/csl-book-examples: “Clojure: The Essential Reference” book examples by chapter.
Alex Ott
ClojureX is cancelled 2019
re:Clojure 2021
SciCloj:
Lambda Days 2022

42: Faster JSON parsing with Erik Assum Oct 07, 2021

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Erik Assum talks about clj-commons, speeding up clojure.data.json, and asks Daniel what he's been up to.

41: Clojure pre-history with Chris Houser Sep 21, 2021

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Chris Houser (Chouser) reflects on the early years of Clojure, Clojure's features, and applying the lessons of Clojure elsewhere.

Note: this podcast was recorded in April 2020 but not published until now. Some of the references are a little outdated, but there’s still some great stuff here that I wanted to get out.

In particular, it doesn’t seem like COVID spreads via metal surfaces very much.

(00:00) Intro
(00:27) The Joy of Clojure
(03:55) Clojure history
(10:55) Clojure and parallel programming
(15:59) Macros
(18:18) Lessons from Clojure
(22:30) Did Erlang have the right idea all along?
(28:08) State of the world in April 2020
(30:31) 3D Printing