Clojurists Together – Q2 2026 Open Source Funding Announcement

(clojuriststogether.org)

61 points | by dragandj 6 hours ago

3 comments

  • cfiggers 4 hours ago
    I wasn't aware of the Gloat project before this. It's a compiler that turns Clojure into native binaries by first transpiling to Glojure (which I'd also never heard of before this), which in turn targets Go. This is rather than using a GraalVM native image, which as I understand it is at this point the better-explored mechanism of doing that for JVM-based stuff (but has its own trade-offs).

    Very cool!

  • snitty 5 hours ago
    How is the demonym not Clojuristas?
    • arikrahman 4 hours ago
      The demonym I've most commonly seen is Clojurian.
      • user3939382 4 hours ago
        Clojurist makes it sound like adherents to a belief, which does imply identity though Clojurian more directly so. I’ve also found Clojurian most often. If only we had software that indexed the popularity of words…
        • arikrahman 37 minutes ago
          In that case, Clojurians can be used for new initiates and Clojurists can be used for the most dogmatic Clojure supremacists, like myself.
  • manytimesaway 5 hours ago
    Two of these projects are just AI. This is not very promising.
    • gargamel9 28 minutes ago
      Neither of them is AI genetated software though. One is a fast Clojure LLM inference library, and the other a MCP server, both coded by humans, without AI.
    • stingraycharles 1 hour ago
      I know at least one of them and it has already existed for a decade or so, and is a legit framework, so this isn’t some hype based thing.

      And Clojure is legitimately good at data processing.

      The MCP server is a relatively simple project, don’t think that’s a bad idea.