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Six years after launching Lambda Island we’ve decided to flip the switch and make all content free. That’s right, all premium video content is now free for anyone to enjoy. Go learn about Reagent and re-frame, Ring and Compojure, or Clojure Fundamentals.

If you currently have an active subscription then it will be automatically cancelled in the coming days. You will no longer be charged. No further action is necessary.

Lambda Island is how the Gaiwan Team gives back to the Clojure community. We have released over thirty different open source projects, we write articles on our blog, post videos on our YouTube channel, we moderate the Lambda Island discord community, and provide a home for the ClojureVerse forum.

We do all of this for free because we want to see Clojurists and the Clojure community at large thrive. However our best stuff, the meticulously produced tutorial videos that Lambda Island started with, was still locked away behind a paywall. Which is a shame, because we feel more people need to see them. Since the start feedback on these videos has almost been unanimously positive, and so we want the world to see them. If we want to find a wider audience then there was really only one option, to make it all free.

We want to send a deep and heartfelt thank you to all the people who have supported us over the years. Some subscribers have been with us for the whole six years, and we know quite a few of you are continuing to pay, not because of the videos, but because of all the other stuff we do. That is truly humbling. There will still be multiple ways to support us going forward. The easiest way as an individual to support us financially is to sign up for the Lambda Island Open Collective

Over the years Lambda Island has evolved from being primarily known for its videos and documentation, to being mostly known for its high quality open source tools and libraries, like the Kaocha test runner, Corgi editor, Ornament styling library, Embedkit dashboard and BI engine, and many small but useful utility libraries like uri, fetch, glogi, classpath, edn-lines, and data-printers.

If your company is relying on Lambda Island open source then we’d love to talk to you. We want Lambda Island libraries and tools to be known for stability, reliability, and quality. A brand that inspires trust, and that you can build upon with confidence. But these things take maintenance, to ensure compatibility with an evolving ecosystem, to patch critical bugs and preempt security flaws. As a small team we constantly need to make choices of what to prioritize, which usually means that we work on what the needs are of current clients. But we don’t want other companies who use our libraries to become second class citizens. This is why we are working on a “Pro” program for Lambda Island Open Source. A way for companies to buy into this prioritization, to get advice on how to integrate and get the most value out of our offerings, and to get a direct line for support questions. If that sounds interesting or you want to learn more then please do get in touch!.