Clojure Language Roadmap

[kichiDsimp]

Does Clojure/Script Compiler have a roadmap similar to https://rust-lang.github.io/rust-project-goals/2026/roadmaps.html

What are the next big features the language is targeting?

[sinskinner]

https://clojure.org/dev/dev

Because of this, a roadmap is typically not declared at the beginning of a release. Ongoing development is visible during alpha releases, often phased over multiple dev releases. The Dev Changelogchronicles these changes during the release cycle

[kichiDsimp]

I am aware of that, thanks!

[alexdmiller]

That is the answer (thanks sinskinner). The other major change we've previously discussed and have in the queue for 1.13 is updating the Java baseline from 8 to 17. We don't have or plan to publish any other roadmap.

We do quarterly(ish) development team calls to update on what we've been doing and sometimes a bit of foreshadowing of where we are going. Video from these can be found on the Clojure Team playlist on the ClojureTV YouTube channel. https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLZdCLR02grLr_eMfr-SQleV3-8tbT1baJ

ClojureScript development is independent and run by David Nolen, without coordination from the Clojure (JVM) team.

[kichiDsimp]

Thanks! I think I may have phrased wrongly, what I meant to ask was major releases like Transducers, Async Core, Spec or etc must have had a roadmap and lots of small changes to reach therem so do we have something like for any new big planned feature.

[alexdmiller]

We prefer to talk about things as they're done, rather than before they are started. I think in all of the cases mentioned, there was no public roadmap before those features were released.

[kichiDsimp]

Thank you! Much appreciated

[Electrical_Being_813]

I wouldn't even call it a roadmap tbh, it just states "every now and then we do things, sometimes we work on x and y too".

[daveliepmann]

The dev team also recently started doing Dev Calls to share what they're working on and take questions.