Tootfinder

#Clojure is not widely used in Africa, it seems. Or Greenland.
Everywhere else, though...
https://clojure.org/news/2026/02/18/state-of-clojure-2025

Which programming languages are most token-efficient?
https://martinalderson.com/posts/which-programming-languages-are-most-token-efficient/

OK, I know I keep bragging about #Clojure being remarkably free of bit-rot, and it is.
But I've just hit bit-rot in an eleven year old project of mine, and I'm not sure what to do.
The error is in a #leiningen project built on a

I've just checked out a #Clojure project I last worked on thirteen years ago, compiled it, ran its unit tests, and they all passed. I then ran `lein ancient upgrade :check-clojure` to upgrade all the dependencies to their latest versions, ran the unit tests again, and they all passed.
I did get one 'deprecated' warning. I can live with that!
It's not stability that I c…

RE: https://mastodon.social/@borkdude/115799677210560924
Couldn't agree more with what Rich Hickey (creator of Clojure) says here in response to one of those sycophantic "Thank you" emails generated by Claude LLM and sent to various people i…

Should
(= 3/4 0.75)
return true (or 't)? You'd think so.
#SBCL 2.5.2 does think so.
MIT/GNU Scheme also thinks so.
#Interlisp Medley agrees.
I think this is correct behaviour.
#Clojure

In #Clojure, if you query a set for a member, and that member is present, that member is returned:
user=> (#{:a :b :c} :a)
:a
The traditional #Lisp function ASSOC has the signature
(ASSOC store key) => value
where store is assumed to be a list of (key . value) dotted pai…