Clojurists Together Update: May and June 2026

Some of you might know that Clojurists Together are supporting my work on nREPL, CIDER and friends this year. Normally I send them a bi-monthly progress report, but I saw some other people who got funding for their OSS work publish those reports as blog posts for the broader public and I thought to try this for a change. The past two months were super productive. I had a lot of inspiration during this period and I managed to tackle a lot of long-standing ideas and issues across the entire nREPL/CIDER ecosystem. Funnily enough, I also managed to grow the ecosystem with a couple of brand new projects, but more about those later. The big highlights from my perspective: CIDER 1.22 is out CIDER 2.0 is essentially ready and needs more user testing Sayid is reborn Two brand new projects saw the light of day: port and neat Piggieback 0.7.0 is out (and Weasel got modernized while I was in the area) clj-refactor and refactor-nrepl got some love as well Below you’ll find more details about the…