Notes and links from meeting
@jason.bullers brought up the idea of porting GOOS to Clojure and FP style https://www.oreilly.com/library/view/growing-object-oriented-software/9780321574442/ How to Design Programs (HtDP) is a book that might be of interest from the Racket community https://htdp.org/ SICP and efforts to port it were also mentioned https://mitp-content-server.mit.edu/books/content/sectbyfn/books_pres_0/6515/sicp.zip/index.html https://github.com/sarabander/sicp-pdf https://www.sicpdistilled.com/ https://sourceacademy.org/sicpjs/
@dorab mentioned some Clojure libraries and tools https://github.com/oneness/csvx https://github.com/ribelo/crabjure https://github.com/parenstech/heretic
Another take on teaching building software from scratch https://hero.handmade.network/
Update about amazing progress on #jank by Jeaye Wilkerson to interop with C++ https://jank-lang.org/blog/2025-07-11-jank-is-cpp https://jank-lang.org/blog/2025-10-03-community Bonus link from Jeaye’s dormant substack about Fennel which is a Clojure like lang that targets Lua https://compilerspotlight.substack.com/p/language-showcase-fennel
And since the topic was Lightweaver, here’s a nice looking bonus article from Tim Pote https://potetm.com/devtalk/stability-by-design.html