Clojurists Together – Q2 2026 Open Source Funding Announcement

If you use Clojure for your business, please consider funding this effort and also directly developers who work on software that you use. It makes for a sustainable ecosystem.

The Clojure community is very mature and incredibly nice, so things are not bad as they are, but they could definitely be better.

I try to set aside a portion of my business revenue (I call it a "sustainability fee" in my P&L) and spread it among the authors of libraries that I use. It's not much for each author, but if everybody did this, many authors could work on open source libraries full time.

I wasn't aware of the Gloat project before this. It's a compiler that turns Clojure into native binaries by first transpiling to Glojure (which I'd also never heard of before this), which in turn targets Go. This is rather than using a GraalVM native image, which as I understand it is at this point the better-explored mechanism of doing that for JVM-based stuff (but has its own trade-offs).

Very cool!

Reminds me of S.P.A.T from about a boy.

How is the demonym not Clojuristas?

Two of these projects are just AI. This is not very promising.