Alex Miller, a prominent figure in the Clojure programming community, dives deep into the exciting new features of Clojure 1.12. He discusses innovations like reimagined Adlibs, enhanced Java interoperability, and user-friendly additions for beginners. The conversation covers the importance of community feedback in shaping the language, updates in concurrency and data handling, as well as the optimization of the 'range' function. Plus, get insights on the upcoming Clojure Conj conference in Virginia, emphasizing its diverse topics and notable speakers.

Alex Miller, GitHub user, discusses the closure crunch event in 2023 and plans for the next event. The chapter discusses the announcement of the free atomic and Rich's current activities. Recent releases and updates in Clojure development are also covered, along with challenges and opportunities in spec two and error messages. The disconnect between primitive object and object references in Clojure is explored, as well as the work of the Clojure community and its ambassadors.

Francis Acila on GitHub - https://github.com/favila Datomic - https://www.datomic.com/ Shortcut - https://www.shortcut.com/

Dmitri Sotnikov, an expert in Clojure and the creator of Kit, discusses the development and collaboration behind the Kit framework and its comparison to Rails. They also explore HTMLX, a server-side rendered framework, and the trade-offs between SPAs and server-side rendering. An upcoming workshop on building applications with Kit is also highlighted.

Roman on GitHub - https://github.com/roman01la Roman on YouTube - https://www.youtube.com/@roman01la UIx - https://github.com/pitch-io/uix

Alex on GitHub - https://github.com/armincerf React Query - https://github.com/TanStack/query Babashka - https://github.com/babashka/babashka SCI - https://github.com/babashka/sci Scittle - https://github.com/babashka/scittle EQL - https://github.com/edn-query-language/eql

Malcolm on Twitter - twitter.com/malcolmsparks Malcolm on GitHub - github.com/malcolmsparks Atomic Architecture - https://www.juxt.pro/blog/atomic-architecture/ Atomic Architecture JUXT Conf - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5ygrCpC0axM

Martin Kavalar, developer and contributor to the Clerk project, joins the hosts to discuss his background and nextjournal. They also explore the benefits of Datomic, collaboration with freelancers, and introduce Claire, an enhanced version of a REPL. They delve into the workflow of Claire and demonstrate how Clerk can be used to view a namespace in a Clojure programming environment.

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