Subject
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Clojure
Bookmarks
Clojure for the Brave and True
Daniel Higginbotham's free online book for learning Clojure — covers functional programming, the JVM, macros, and concurrency with a humor-forward style. One of the most recommended Clojure introductions for programmers coming from imperative languages.
Getting Started with Clojure
jrheard's beginner guide to getting started with Clojure — covering setup, REPL workflow, and the first concepts that trip people up. A 2013 onramp into Clojure during its peak growth period.
Prismatic's Graph at Strange Loop
Prismatic's Strange Loop 2012 talk introducing their Graph library — a Clojure framework for declarative, composable data flow computation where functions are wired together as a directed dependency graph. An early influence on the functional reactive programming ideas that would shape ClojureScript and later frontend architectures.
Not All Programmers Are Alike: A Language Rant
Scott Locklin's blunt 2012 rant arguing that different programmers have fundamentally different aptitudes and that functional/Lisp languages self-select for a specific type. The HN discussion was equally spirited. An honest engagement with the uncomfortable reality that not all programming taste is equal.
First Hundred Days of Clojure
Niclas Meier's reflection after 100 days of learning Clojure — a practitioner's account of what the language demands and what it delivers, written when Clojure was still a relatively young and unusual choice. A snapshot of the functional programming learning curve.
How Prismatic Deals with Data Storage and Aggregation
Prismatic's 2012 engineering post on their data architecture for real-time news personalization — using Storm for stream processing, Cassandra for distributed storage, and a Clojure-based interest graph. An early look at the stream-processing stack that became standard infrastructure.