Clojure Gazette 108

Written by Eric Normand. Published: January 4, 2015

GUI, Node, Seqs, Jedi

Clojure Gazette

Issue 108 January 04, 2015

Editorial

Hi Conj-urers!

Clojure is maturing as a platform and as a community. I think we will see more of the same this year: Clojure continuing to have profound effects on the thinking of programmers, exciting and well-built libraries and language extensions, and continued growth of the community.

My most popular issues, at least the ones that get me the most email responses, are the themed issues I will occasionally do. I want to do more of them this year. I also want to do more interviews. Believe it or not, but finding ten good links per week is kind of hard. There's plenty of stuff out there, but the amount of stuff I have to go through to find the good stuff is overwhelming. I'm confident that doing more interviews and themed issues will help me improve.

Thanks so much for being a part of the Clojure Gazette. Here's to an exciting 2015!

Rock on!
Eric Normand <eric@lispcast.com> @ericnormand

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