The REPL

By Daniel Compton

What's The REPL about?

['Daniel Compton talks to Clojure and ClojureScript developers about the libraries and systems they have built. They dive into the nitty-gritty details and technical challenges the authors faced.', 'A podcast diving into the technical details behind Clojure programs']

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The REPL episodes:

04.22.2024
53: Clojure LSP with Eric Dallo
Eric Dallo talks about the LSP protocol, and Clojure LSP
04.14.2024
52: Coding in YAML with Ingy döt Net
Ingy döt Net talks about his new programming language YAMLScript, compiling YAML to Clojure, and the development of the YAML format
03.05.2024
51: Building a text editor with Nate Hunzaker
Nate Hunzaker talks about building a text editor for the web
02.27.2024
50: Peter Taoussanis
Peter Taoussanis talks about Sente, Timbre, Carmine, Nippy, Tufte, and many more of his libraries
12.30.2023
49: Clerk with Martin Kavalar
Martin Kavalar talks about Clerk
09.16.2023
48: Biff with Jacob O'Bryant
Jacob O'Bryant talks about Biff, XTDB, and building a web framework for small teams
01.13.2023
47: Executable textbooks with Sam Ritchie
Sam Ritchie talks about the Mentat Collective, executable textbooks, visual math
12.24.2022
: Episodes
12.24.2022
46: ClojureDart with Christophe Grand and Baptiste Dupuch
Christophe Grand and Baptiste Dupuch talk about ClojureDart, a new dialect of Clojure
10.03.2022
45: Data Rabbit with Ryan Robitaille
Ryan Robitaille talks about data visualisation, and building a visual coding environment in Clojure
09.17.2022
44: Jank with Jeaye Wilkerson
Jeaye Wilkerson talks about compilers, LLVM, and building a dynamic, compiled Clojure
11.13.2021
43: Clojure, The Essential Reference with Renzo Borgatti
Renzo Borgatti talks about what he learnt while creating his reference of the Clojure standard library, and about the re:Clojure conference.
10.07.2021
42: Faster JSON parsing with Erik Assum
Erik Assum talks about clj-commons, speeding up clojure.data.json, and asks Daniel what he's been up to.
09.20.2021
41: Clojure pre-history with Chris Houser
Chris Houser (Chouser) reflects on the early years of Clojure, Clojure's features, and applying the lessons of Clojure elsewhere.
09.13.2021
40: Shipping Clojure code with Paulus Esterhazy
Paulus Esterhazy talks about trunk-based development, monorepos, path-focused design, and fast feedback
09.06.2021
39: Clojure Goes Fast with Alexander Yakushev
Alexander Yakushev talks about performance measurement tools, and Clojure Goes Fast
08.31.2021
38: Banking and Clojure with Allen Rohner
Allen Rohner talks about Griffin, building a new bank, and Bazel
05.21.2020
37: The Clojurists Together Foundation with lvh
lvh talks about the Clojurists Together Foundation.
04.25.2020
36: Clojure CLI tools with Michiel Borkent
Michiel Borkent talks about clj-kondo, Jet, Babashka, and GraalVM.
04.02.2020
35: Mature Clojure codebases with Łukasz Korecki
Łukasz Korecki talks about building a mature startup using Clojure. He also talks about how EnjoyHQ built a successful distributed team.
03.25.2020
34: CIDER and tending the Orchard with Bozhidar Batsov
Bozhidar Batsov talks about CIDER, the Orchard, Clojure, Emacs, Ruby, and style guides
11.23.2019
33: Peter Strömberg on Calva, a Clojure plugin for VS Code
Peter Strömberg talks about Calva, VS Code, Clojurists Together funding, and how you can contribute.
11.19.2019
34: Peter Strömberg on Calva, a Clojure plugin for VS Code
Peter Strömberg talks about Calva, VS Code, Clojurists Together funding, and how you can contribute.
11.13.2019
32: Clojure, Kafka, and OPERATR with Derek Troy-West
Derek Troy-West talks about scaling systems with Clojure, Kafka, and building systems with pure data
11.08.2019
31: Joel Holdbrooks on Meander
Joel Holdbrooks talks about Meander, interpreters, operational semantics, and Clojurists Together funding.
10.22.2019
30: Bobby Calderwood on Kafka and Fintech
Bobby Calderwood talks about banking and financial technology in the US, mainframes, Kafka, and their new platform.
08.26.2019
29: Marc O'Morain on adding Windows support to CircleCI
Marc O'Morain talks about CircleCI's new Windows support, their new JavaScript frontend, and fighting cryptominers.
08.12.2019
28: Ambrose Bonnaire-Sergeant on Typed Clojure
Ambrose Bonnaire-Sergeant talks about Spec, typing, and doing three degrees in Typed Clojure
07.24.2019
27: Eric Normand on teaching Clojure
Eric Normand talks about his new course on REPL driven development, and teaching Clojure
07.10.2019
26: Nathan Marz on a new programming paradigm
Nathan Marz talks about his new company Red Planet Labs, Specter, and building a new programming paradigm
06.26.2019
25: Dragan Djuric on Neanderthal
Dragan Djuric talks about his recent work writing Deep Learning in Clojure from Scratch. We also talked about writing technical books that use Clojure, rather than technical books about Clojure.
06.12.2019
24: Crux, a new bitemporal database from JUXT
Jeremy Taylor and Malcolm Sparks from JUXT talk about Crux, their new open source database, why they made it, and which gaps it fills.
04.18.2019
23: Elements of Clojure with Zach Tellman
Zach Tellman talks about writing Elements of Clojure, some of the work he's done in Clojure over the last ten years, and what's next.
04.03.2019
22: Cursive IDE with Colin Fleming
Colin Fleming talks about building Cursive IDE on the IntelliJ platform
03.27.2019
21: Looking at Clojure through the mindset of business with Jonathan Boston
Jonathan Boston discusses Clojure, business, the best and worst code he wrote last year, and the ClojureScript community.
03.20.2019
20: Clojure MXNet with Carin Meier
Carin Meier talks about the Clojure MXNet package, MXNet, Scala interop with Java, and ML in society
03.13.2019
19: Formatting Clojure code with Shaun Lebron
I talk with Shaun Lebron about my recent Clojure formatting proposal
02.20.2019
18: Testing Clojure and ClojureScript with Arne Brasseur
Arne Brasseur talks about Kaocha, Heart of Clojure, Lambda Island, and Clojureverse
02.04.2019
17: Editing Clojure code with Shaun Lebron
Shaun Lebron talks about Parinfer, editor integration, understanding user editing intent, and meeting people where they are.
01.19.2019
16: Monorepos and monologues with Alex Engelberg
Alex Engelberg discusses his recent talk at the Conj, lein-monolith, and other Amperity open source projects
01.12.2019
15: Clojure at Apple with David Taylor
David Taylor talks about adopting Clojure at Apple, lessons about management, and balancing being an engineer and a leader.
12.05.2018
14: ClojureScript, Lumo, and Lambdas with Antonio Monteiro
Antonio Monteiro talks about building Lumo, improving the ClojureScript beginner experience, typed GraphQL in OCaml, and creating a custom AWS Lambda runtime.
12.05.2018
13: High performance Clojure numerics with Chris Nuernberger
Chris Nuernberger talks about his work on tvm-clj, unsigned bytes on the JVM, efficient copying of data, neural networks, GPUs
12.05.2018
13: High performance Clojure numerics with Chris Nuernberger
Chris Nuernberger talks about his work on tvm-clj, unsigned bytes on the JVM, efficient copying of data, neural networks, GPUs
11.28.2018
12: Clojure documentation with Martin Klepsch
Martin Klepsch talks about cljdoc, an automatic documentation website for all of the Clojure community's code.
11.26.2018
11: Saskia Lindner on re-frame-10x, compassionate coding, and mindfulness
We talk with Saskia Lindner about her experience working on re-frame-10x in Rails Girls Summer of Code, ClojureBridge, remote working, and compassionate coding.
11.12.2018
10: Howard Lewis Ship on GraphQL and Lacinia
Howard Lewis Ship talks about Walmart Labs and their open source Clojure projects.
11.02.2018
9: Hannah Henderson on Continuous Integration at CircleCI
Hannah Henderson talks about CI, Spec, remote work, and engineering at CircleCI.
10.25.2018
8: Elana Hashman on Debian and Clojure
Elana Hashman discusses her work on packaging Leiningen, the state of Clojure on Debian, and I ask her all the questions I've ever had about packaging on Linux.
10.18.2018
7: Ben Brinckerhoff on Clojure Spec and Error Messages
Ben Brinckerhoff talks about Expound, his tool for formatting Clojure Spec error messages, a common language for Clojure errors, and the wider world of error messages.

What's The REPL about?

Download our free app to listen on your phone

The REPL episodes:

53: Clojure LSP with Eric Dallo

52: Coding in YAML with Ingy döt Net

51: Building a text editor with Nate Hunzaker

50: Peter Taoussanis

49: Clerk with Martin Kavalar

48: Biff with Jacob O'Bryant

47: Executable textbooks with Sam Ritchie

: Episodes

46: ClojureDart with Christophe Grand and Baptiste Dupuch

45: Data Rabbit with Ryan Robitaille

44: Jank with Jeaye Wilkerson

43: Clojure, The Essential Reference with Renzo Borgatti

42: Faster JSON parsing with Erik Assum

41: Clojure pre-history with Chris Houser

40: Shipping Clojure code with Paulus Esterhazy

39: Clojure Goes Fast with Alexander Yakushev

38: Banking and Clojure with Allen Rohner

37: The Clojurists Together Foundation with lvh

36: Clojure CLI tools with Michiel Borkent

35: Mature Clojure codebases with Łukasz Korecki

34: CIDER and tending the Orchard with Bozhidar Batsov

33: Peter Strömberg on Calva, a Clojure plugin for VS Code

34: Peter Strömberg on Calva, a Clojure plugin for VS Code

32: Clojure, Kafka, and OPERATR with Derek Troy-West

31: Joel Holdbrooks on Meander

30: Bobby Calderwood on Kafka and Fintech

29: Marc O'Morain on adding Windows support to CircleCI

28: Ambrose Bonnaire-Sergeant on Typed Clojure

27: Eric Normand on teaching Clojure

26: Nathan Marz on a new programming paradigm

25: Dragan Djuric on Neanderthal

24: Crux, a new bitemporal database from JUXT

23: Elements of Clojure with Zach Tellman

22: Cursive IDE with Colin Fleming

21: Looking at Clojure through the mindset of business with Jonathan Boston

20: Clojure MXNet with Carin Meier

19: Formatting Clojure code with Shaun Lebron

18: Testing Clojure and ClojureScript with Arne Brasseur

17: Editing Clojure code with Shaun Lebron

16: Monorepos and monologues with Alex Engelberg

15: Clojure at Apple with David Taylor

14: ClojureScript, Lumo, and Lambdas with Antonio Monteiro

13: High performance Clojure numerics with Chris Nuernberger

13: High performance Clojure numerics with Chris Nuernberger

12: Clojure documentation with Martin Klepsch

11: Saskia Lindner on re-frame-10x, compassionate coding, and mindfulness

10: Howard Lewis Ship on GraphQL and Lacinia

9: Hannah Henderson on Continuous Integration at CircleCI

8: Elana Hashman on Debian and Clojure

7: Ben Brinckerhoff on Clojure Spec and Error Messages