In the last weeks I've played a lot with a new language, clojure. I really like it even so I never thought I'd be a lisp person I got convinced otherwise, I love the language it's clean and beautiful. Aside of that the community is just great, you can ask questions without being told RTFM or equally non helpful things. And best of it all, there is a quite large German presence, even an own IRC channel #clojure.de. There are at least three books upcoming I heard from the IRC channels, which is quite cool since it seems that a lot of the community opinion/questions/ideas are taken into account here and they won't be purely theoretical, there is even a German book :D.

It is great fun to juggle with functions and pass them around and I finished my first library the other day: clj-sandbox. It's a result of a talk in the #clojure channel the idea is to provide an easy way to sandbox and it seems to work.

In related news, it looks as a first tech beta of the game a few friends and me are working on will be online soon. It will be a kind of a tournament game where each user can build their ships, fleets and AI's to battle each other and see who wins. The engine is entirely written in clojure and the AI scripts will work on clojure as well. In the start there will be limited accounts and they will be handed out in a first come first server manner, so if you're interested in trying our game out just drop a comment or send me a mail and I'll put you on the list.