The Curious Case of Clojure Contrib

1 · Bozhidar Batsov · April 23, 2019, 5:18 p.m.
Do you know what’s the common thing between Clojure Contrib, microservices and DevOps? Everyone thinks they know and understand them, but most people have a different idea about what they are.1 For many years people have believed that Contrib is one of the following: A staging ground for functionality that will eventually make its way to Clojure. A standard library for Clojure. A set of (superior) libraries maintained/blessed by Rich/Cognitect. Contrib has a long history and I think that in th...