Created a channel called #C1CT4LUBX where we can discuss these topics (may or may not be related to software).
Specter 0.11.0 has been released. Gone are the days of doing manual precompilation to get high performance – now it's just always fast (for both Clojure and ClojureScript) https://github.com/nathanmarz/specter
As part of the release, wrote up a detailed guide to how Specter achieves its high performance. Should also be an interesting read for anyone curious about the design of a very powerful Clojure library. https://github.com/nathanmarz/specter/wiki/Specter-0.11.0:-Performance-without-the-tradeoffs
Datomic 0.9.5372 is now available https://groups.google.com/d/msg/datomic/sF5C5mpLCmE/gq29iOxpAgAJ