Clojurians Log v2
clojure-conj
Hey, hey! We’re designing the workshops and activities for Wednesday, September 30, at Clojure/Conj 2026, and we'd like to hear from you: what’s something in the Clojure ecosystem you still don’t fully understand, or feel you’re just “getting by” with? If you had half a day to go deep on it, what would it be? Drop your ideas in the thread, and feel free to plus_one any of them you’d also love to see, so we can focus on things that actually matter in your day-to-day.
P.S. i.e. "Full Systems" development; not just full stack. The key insight being derived from this line of questioning + hands-on practice: "What if one is able to apply the same software design sensibilities, problem-solving techniques, and (data-oriented) programming model all the way down from the 'small' (a function -> a namespace -> a module -> a program), all the way up to the 'large' whole entire systems-of-systems? And oh by the way, not have to change one's programming lingua franca in the process (not the same host or I/O, but the same programmatic abstractions and tools)."
Clojure Full-Stack - backend (Clojure), frontend (ClojureScript/Shadowcljs,{Replicant,Reframe,Reagent}), and of course mobile/desktop (ClojureDart/Flutter) in action.
A first-principles intuition of composing applications (any kind) out of a small set of parts (libraries, multimethods, protocols, or even single functions), using "data-oriented-programming". This is where I struggled, and where almost everyone I know struggles (especially experienced programmers accustomed to other languages). That is critical grounding to further insights like "data DSLs", malli/spec style schemas, interceptors, component systems, data-driven routing, specter-style general-purpose path navigation, re-frame's effect/coeffect system, replicant's unidirectional dataflow loop, all the way to systems-of-systems like datomic / "turning the database inside-out", etc.
To Burin's recommendation, I'd tack on sysadmin / devops / developer experience tooling and scripting - Babashka.
concurrency architectures in clojure, java, clojurescript and javascript. And not just core.async