Ep 054: The Forest in the Trees

Functional Design in Clojure

Each week, we discuss a different topic about Clojure and functional programming.

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This week, the topic is: "Working with heavily nested trees." We discuss three powerful libraries (Specter, Spectacles, and clojure.walk) and where they might fit into our Clojure programs.

Selected quotes:

• "Tree manipulation is like surgery, you need to get down to the right level before you start making changes."
• "I've seen people come up with novel and interesting solutions to problems that other people just don't have."
• "Spec is a structural type checker, instead of a name-based type checker, which is far more useful."
• "Every time you reach for a tool, you're inviting its complexity into your project."
• "The structure of your data will lead you toward a particular tool."

Related episodes:

• 020: Data Dessert - Summary episode for the time log series

Links:

• clojure.walk
• Specter
• Spectacles