Practically applying Clojure

Fourteen Months with Clojure. Dan McKinley on using Clojure to build AWS automation platform Skyliner:

The tricky part isn’t the language so much as it is the slang.

Also, the best and worst part of Clojure:

When the going gets tough, the tough use maps

This is probably better now that specs and schema are popular. Before, when they were mysterious maps full of Very Important State, reading Clojure code (and any kind of Lisp) was pretty challenging.

Make sure you stick around for the joke about covariance and contravariance. Those type theories, hilarious!

Adam Keys @therealadam