Reading up on Clojure

Dan Luu's empirical tests with LLMs on Zstd and Pandoc implementations show that language popularity weakly correlates with better outcomes, but claims about dynamic or token-efficient languages being superior for coding agents do not hold across non-trivial tasks.

DuckDB is now available as a Clojure library, bringing its high-performance, in-process analytical database capabilities to Clojure developers for local data analysis on laptops.

Thi.ng is a 350-module open-source toolkit for computational design and generative art, built bottom-up with small, composable pieces.

The Hacker News discussion debates whether Go's simplicity, fast compilation, and opinionated style make it ideal for AI agents, with commenters offering counterarguments favoring Python, Rust, and other languages.