announcements 2026-08-23

First release of https://glitter.b12n.app A Replicant-style GTK4 renderer for Jolt (Clojure on Chez Scheme, no JVM). • Event handlers are data, not closures - a button carries [[:action/inc]], dispatched through one global fn, so the same handler position can carry different action data across renders without the GTK signal being disconnected and rebuilt • One application-state atom, a pure state -> hiccup view, top-down re-render on every change • 43 GTK4 widget tags: box, entry, list-box, notebook, stack, grid, header-bar, menu-button, popover, drop-down and the rest • Two backends behind one reconciler - real GTK4, and an in-memory fake, so the diff algorithm is testable with no display • 6 interactive demos, 4 of them 7GUIs tasks, each with a committed GIF • 26 live-GTK smokes that mount real windows and assert against real widget state • Sibling to glimmer, the Reagent-style renderer for the same toolkit, so the two models can be compared on identical widgets • MIT licensed; vendors Replicant under its own MIT, with file-by-file provenance in NOTICE

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