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2025 August XX by Dustin Getz - https://twitter.com/dustingetz
Here’s what we’ve been working on this year. Scroll down for demos, and then at the end find maturity/roadmap for Electric and Hyperfiddle, as well as business plans.
Electric (github) is a reactive Clojure/Script dialect for building rich, cloud-connected web product user interfaces. If this is your first time seeing Electric, the explainer demos are a good place to start, or the 5 min lightning talk.
Electric v3 is stable, operational, and has been in private beta since Christmas. We are currently not restricting signups – everyone who fills out the form gets immediate access. If you haven’t gotten access yet, just fill out the form again and you will get in.
Datomic Browser (github) is an easy way to get a generic web-based support/diagnostics UI for any production Datomic service, with the ability to extend using Clojure to add custom queries, routes, and views.
We’re slow launching major upgrades to this that make it seaworthy in production, now supporting large Datomic databases, monitoring and killing long running queries, fullscreen virtual scroll over collections up to 50k records, excellent entity navigation with tooltips, etc.
This is an important release for us, demonstrating that Electric can now do the things, in a few hundred LOC, that no other technology can do. (Yes, a SQL version is in the works, contact us!)
We’ve resumed work on Hyperfiddle (website) again, now that Electric v3 is delivering on its potential and we’re out of the rabbit hole! This is our business hypothesis, an attack on the low code application platform category which has 100s of millions of dollars of revenue. Our mission is to capture this revenue and invest the proceeds in foundational programming abstractions, so that we can all benefit from better software, and develop it less painfully. You can read more about that here: Mission, Position, Business, Community.
We gave a keynote talk at Lambda Conf (a Scala conference, lol!), and repeated it at ReClojure in London. Feedback is that this is the best explanation yet of Electric v3 and how it works. We were thrilled to be invited to represent Clojure to the pure FP community, and frankly reintroduce it in a credible way after watching Clojure be written off by this community many years ago. Dynamic languages innovate faster!
We plan to attend both Clojure/South and Clojure Conj and submitted talks about HFQL (read more below), which we are incredibly excited about. All new content!
On the business side, I want to highlight a new partner, CloudAfrica, a regional cloud provider. We are particularly excited about this project because they are building an AWS-like management console UI, which is exactly the type of UI the Hyperfiddle architecture is designed to solve. The CTO has been a long time Electric supporter and we are happy to partner!