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malcolmjuxt·Apr 18, 2026

I wish I had known about interval arithmetic when I first wrote tick, a time interval library in Clojure, which includes a. implementation of Allen's Interval Algebra. It also embraces the notion of sets of discrete intervals which are useful for practical work calculations, like determining the set of intervals of your vacations that are in a particular year (for HR calculations). I accidentally stumbled on benefits of these sets without knowing much beyond Allen's work. https://github.com/juxt/tick https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allen's_interval_algebra

In Show HN: I made a calculator that works over disjoint sets of intervals

jgrodziski·Aug 10, 2023

The Clojure's approach is to favour libraries over frameworks. We use Clojure on various style of applications (mainly web and API based), hosted on widespread infrastructure technologies of Cloud Providers (Kubernetes, PostgreSQL, Kafka, etc.) and it's a breeze: here are our reasons for choosing Clojure https://defsquare.com/blog/why-we-bet-on-clojure If you want to look at libraries where some people have settled, here are our _opinionated_ takes on libraries that we use on almost every project: - HTTP: Ring is the de facto way to manage HTTP request (see https://github.com/ring-clojure/ring/wiki/Concepts) supplemented with various "Middlewares" for web-related concerns (security, logging, content encoding, etc. see https://github.com/ring-clojure/ring/wiki/Standard-middlewar...). Jetty and Aleph are common web servers (and https://gith

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ub.com/clj-commons/aleph) that implement Ring interface. - Routing: Reitit (https://github.com/metosin/reitit) - Single-Page App: shadow-cljs for the build concerns (https://github.com/thheller/shadow-cljs), Reagent with Re-frame for complex/large app (https://reagent-project.github.io and https://github.com/day8/re-frame). Even if we now prefer using HTMX (https://htmx.org) and server-side rendering (Hiccup way of manipulating HTML is just amazing, https://github.com/weavejester/hiccup). - Schema management: Malli (https://github.com/metosin/malli) - Lifecycle management: Mount, Integrant or Component (https://github.com/tolitius/mount https://github.com/weavejester/integrant and https://github.com/stuartsierra/component) - Config management: Aero (https://github.com/juxt/aero) and environ (https://github.com/weavejester/environ) - Log: μ/log (https://github.com/BrunoBonacci/mulog) - Time: https://github.com/juxt/tick - Testing: https://clojure.github.io/clojure/clojure.test-api.html and Kaocha for the runner (https://github.com/lambdaisland/kaocha). - Package and project management: tools.deps is simple and powerful (https://clojure.org/guides/deps_and_cli) For infrastructure stuff (PostgreSQL, Keycloak, Solr, Kafka, etc.), just wrapping the underlying Java library or driver is often enough, and there are lots of wrappers for easing the integration. And we implement Hexagonal architecture style to put all of that in place. Don't be afraid a libraries not moving a lot recently, it's a sign that the library is mature and battle-tested. Clojure is a joy to use every day :)

In A History of Clojure (2020) [pdf]

raspasov·Mar 26, 2021

"you can change the fundamental data structure and the algo still works" - it doesn't really pan out, and it's not important in my experience of using Clojure for about ~8 years. What makes Clojure worth it is the pervasive reduction of mutable state across your program without the cost and rigidity of creating types everywhere. Also great sharing of code across Clojure and ClojureScript: - You want your dates to behave the same on client and server? You got it: https://github.com/juxt/tick - You want your logging/debugging code to be the same? You got it: https://github.com/ptaoussanis/timbre - You want good async primitives? No problem: https://github.com/clojure/core.async - And many more... I haven't seen another language that is as good as Clojure(Script) at this. Nowadays .cljc (.clj + .cljs) files really rock.

In Rich Hickey and Brian Beckman – Inside Clojure (2009) [video]