Clojurists Together awards $31K across 5 projects in Q2 2026: Malli, Uncomplicate AI, SciCloj, Gloat, and PluMCP.
Key Takeaways
Malli ($9K): Ambrose Bonnaire-Sergeant targets memory efficiency in recursive ref validators, fixing high upfront memory that blocked Metabase adoption.
Uncomplicate AI ($9K): Dragan Djuric builds iLLaManati, a local LLM library via ONNX Runtime targeting Gemma 3 with GPU/CPU support on JVM.
Gloat ($2K): Ingy döt Net advances Clojure-to-Go/native/Wasm compilation as a GraalVM native-image alternative with cross-compilation to ~25 targets.
PluMCP ($2K): Shantanu Kumar implements MCP spec version 2025-11-25 including OpenID Connect Discovery and incremental OAuth2.1 scope consent for Clojure/ClojureScript.
SciCloj ($9K): Cvetomir Dimov extends Noj plotting backends, adds interactive dashboard generation, and expands the Noj book documentation.
Hacker News Comment Review
Commenters note that two of five funded projects (iLLaManati, PluMCP) are AI-focused, with at least one commenter viewing this as a concerning trend for the Clojure ecosystem fund.
Discussion is minimal and leans toward community identity quips rather than technical evaluation of the funded work.
Notable Comments
@manytimesaway: “Two of these projects are just AI. This is not very promising.”
