May 2, 2026
Cash, clash, and Clojuristas
Clojurists Together – Q2 2026 Open Source Funding Announcement
Open-source cash drops, and the comments instantly turn into cheers, side-eye, and jokes
TLDR: Clojurists Together is funding five open-source projects with $31,000, including tools for data work, artificial intelligence, and software validation. The community reaction split between praise for supporting developers, grumbling about too much AI, and jokes about whether the real scandal is the name “Clojurists” itself.
Clojurists Together just handed out $31,000 to five open-source projects for Q2 2026, with bigger $9,000 awards going to work on Malli, an artificial intelligence tool in Clojure, and SciCloj’s data and docs push, plus two smaller $2,000 bets on Gloat and PluMCP. On paper, it’s a feel-good funding update. In the comments? It quickly became a full-blown community mood board: part applause, part anxiety, part comedy hour.
The loudest heartfelt reaction came from people begging businesses that rely on Clojure to put money back into the ecosystem. One commenter basically turned the thread into a public service announcement for sustainability, arguing that if companies use this software to make money, they should help keep its creators afloat too. That earnest call got paired with a very different vibe: suspicion about where the money is going. The sharpest side-eye landed on the artificial intelligence angle, with one critic groaning that two of the funded projects are “just AI,” calling the lineup “not very promising.” Ouch.
Then came the delightful nerd chaos. One commenter got completely distracted by Gloat, a project they’d never heard of, and spiraled into fascinated confusion over how it works. Another ignored the funding entirely to ask the only question that apparently matters: why isn’t the group called “Clojuristas”? And for peak internet randomness, someone said the name reminded them of S.P.A.T. from About a Boy. So yes: real money, real software, and very real comment-section energy.
Key Points
- •Clojurists Together announced Q2 2026 funding for five projects totaling $31,000 USD.
- •The funded slate includes three $9,000 projects and two $2,000 shorter or experimental projects.
- •Metabase joined as a new Transduce member and is supporting Ambrose Bonnaire-Sergeant’s work on Malli.
- •The article details Malli work aimed at preserving constant-memory validation of recursive schemas while reducing high upfront memory costs.
- •The article also describes SciCloj’s broader mission and says Cvetomir Dimov’s project will improve Noj libraries and documentation, including plotting capabilities.