A shared home for Jolt libraries and tooling.
Jolt is a Clojure compiler built on Chez Scheme. This organization is where the people building on it publish together: libraries that have outgrown a single maintainer, ports of Clojure libraries, and new work that would rather start with company than alone. It is modelled on clj-commons, which has done the same job for Clojure for years.
jolt-lang keeps the language and its standard library, and everything growing around them lives here. That is the arrangement Jolt's author, Dmitri Sotnikov, proposed when this organization was raised on #jolt: the language org stays focused on the essentials, and the wider ecosystem gets one obvious place to be found rather than being scattered across personal accounts. The two overlap on purpose. This organization's admins are members of jolt-lang too, and some jolt-lang projects are expected to move here.
Core-team work lands here directly. ebb, raylib-android, and ftxui-jolt were all started in this organization by Jolt's author rather than moved in later, with more expected. Anyone else can do the same, member or not.
Each project keeps its own maintainers, its own release cadence and its own review protocol. What it gains by being here is shared ground: a documentation site built and published for it, CI that checks it against a current Jolt, and conventions worked out once instead of once per repository.
| project | what it is |
|---|---|
| raylib-jlt | 154 raylib examples, calling the system libraylib over its C ABI through jolt.ffi. Docs |
| raygui-jlt | 24 examples of raygui, raylib's immediate-mode GUI library, bound the same way. Docs |
| glitter-core | The natives-free two-thirds of glitter: the Replicant-style reconciler and IRender/IMemory protocols, with no toolkit dependency at all. What glitter, glitter-uikit, and uikit-demo all build on. Docs |
| glitter | A Replicant-style GTK4 renderer built on glitter-core: one state atom, a pure state -> hiccup view, and event handlers as data. Docs |
| glitter-gl | OpenGL geometry, matrices and shaders for glitter, plus a :gl-area widget to draw them in. Docs |
| glitter-uikit | The same renderer model driving native macOS NSView widgets through AppKit, rather than GTK4. Docs |
| uikit-demo | A demo of glitter-uikit: a hub of live example windows (counter, currency converter, live FX, particle toy) built as a real macOS app bundle. Docs |
| nexus-jolt | A Jolt port of nexus: data-driven action/effect/placeholder dispatch, used today by the glitter family. Docs |
| raylib-ios | raylib and SDL2 on a physical iPhone, as portable bytecode with no JIT, since iOS forbids generating code at run time. Forty-eight scenes at 60 fps. Docs |
| raylib-android | raylib on an Android phone as native arm64 code, with no JVM, Kotlin or Java anywhere in the app. Seventeen scenes under an owner loop of about thirty lines |
| ebb | A port of missionary: composable tasks and flows with real cancellation and glitch-free dataflow, running on Chez fibers |
| ftxui-jolt | A reagent-style API over FTXUI, the C++ terminal UI library: components as functions returning hiccup, rendered through FTXUI's own event loop, focus handling and mouse support |
Six of the twelve arrived by adoption, transferred rather than forked, so their history and issues came with them and each kept its original maintainer. raylib-android, ebb, and ftxui-jolt were started here by Jolt's author, and glitter-core, uikit-demo, and nexus-jolt were started here by a different maintainer.
Those six publish through docs-engine,
so none of them maintains a site generator of its own, and each site lives at
jlt-commons.github.io/<repo>/. glitter-core, uikit-demo, and nexus-jolt are on the
shared engine too, from day one. raylib-android, ebb, and ftxui-jolt are recent enough
that their documentation is still the repo README.
This table is only what's hosted here. For everything in the wider Jolt ecosystem — jolt-lang's own libraries, JVM and Clojure compatibility, docs and tooling — see awesome-jolt, a community-maintained curated list. Its own site publishes through docs-engine too.
Adoption. A Jolt project whose maintainer can no longer look after it, taken over so the community keeps a working version. We ask the current owner first, every time.
Incubation. New work started here. Ports of widely used Clojure libraries, and new libraries that belong beside the language rather than inside it. ebb, raylib-android, and ftxui-jolt came in this way. The bar is deliberately low: a real gap, and someone willing to maintain it.
Everyone is welcome to help, member or not. Open an issue or a pull request on any repo here.
- Propose a project, or volunteer to maintain one: open an issue in
meta - Read the rules, both short: governance and proposing a project
- Talk to us on #jolt on the Clojurians Slack
- Use the docs engine. Any project here can publish through docs-engine: write markdown and a short config file, and CI builds and deploys the site on merge.
New projects here are EPL-2.0, matching Jolt and Clojure. Adopted projects keep the license they arrived with.
