Clojure versus Java: Why use Clojure?
I just gave an introductory talk to Clojure and one of the questions after the event was when would a Java programmer might want to switch to using Clojure? Well Java is a much more complex language...
View ArticleClojure Exchange 2013: Tommy Hall on Concurrency versus Parallelism
One of the really interesting talks at Clojure Exchange 2013 was one by Tommy Hall with the (not good) title You came for the concurrency, right?. The talk had two main threads. It served as a helpful...
View ArticleClojurescript: is it any better yet?
A while ago I wrote about how Clojurescript was a square peg being hammered into a non-existent hole to complete indifference by everyone. So has anything changed? Well Clojurescript has continued to...
View ArticleClojurescript at London FunctionalJS
At the January’s London FunctionalJS meetup the technology under discussion and use was Clojurescript. There was an introduction to the language basics from Thomas Kristensen of Forward, which was...
View ArticleLondon Clojure unconference July 2014 report
For the first session I was interested in trying to continue the discussion about the Clojure “sweet spot” we had had on the mailing list. But there was only a smattering of interest so we rolled it up...
View ArticleTransducers at the November London Clojure Dojo 2014
One of the topics for the November ThoughtWorks dojo was transducers (something I’ve looked at before and singularly failed to get working). Tranducers will be coming to clojure.core in 1.7, the code...
View ArticleCreating Javascript with Clojure
This post is an accompaniment to my lightning talk at Clojure Exchange 2014 and is primarily a summary with lots of links to the libraries and technologies mentioned in the presentation. The first step...
View ArticleData wrangling with Clojure
Clojure is a great language for wrangling data that is either awkwardly-sized or where data needs to be drawn from and stored in different locations. What does awkward-sized data mean? I am going to...
View ArticleClojure Exchange 2016
At one point during this year's Clojure Exchange I was reflecting on the numerous problems and setbacks there had been in organising the 2016 exchange with Bruce Durling and he simply replied: "Yeah it...
View ArticleJuxt 24
Juxt hold an occasional conference and this edition was focused on Fintech which isn’t an area that I know really well but have dabbled in a bit. Opening keynote Fortunately the opening talk by Fran...
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