Clojure 1.9: Spec.

Clojure 1.10: datafy/nav + tap> which has spawned a whole new set of tooling for exploring data.

Clojure 1.11: portable math (clojure.math, which also works on ClojureScript).

Clojure 1.12: huge improvements in Java interop.

And, yes, the new CLI and deps.edn, and tools.build to support "builds as programs".

vaylian an hour ago | parent | next [-]

And we can look forward to Jank https://jank-lang.org/

Things have surely happened and the language has improved, but would you consider any of this to be innovative?

	▲	jwr an hour ago \| parent \| next [-]
		Hmm. I'm not sure what you are looking for — myself, I write software that supports my living, and I'm not looking for thrills. What I get with Clojure is new concepts every couple of years or so, thought through and carefully implemented by people much smarter than me, in a way that doesn't break anything. This lets me concentrate on my work and deliver said software that supports my living. And pay the bills.
	▲	waffletower 37 minutes ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		Babashka is definitely innovative and useful