Functional Geekery Episode 137 - Renzo Borgatti 3x1fx

In this episode I talk with Renzo Borgatti. We talk his introduction to Clojure, learning the extended vocabulary of Clojure, his book Clojure: The Essential Reference, gems in the Clojure language, side projects, and much more. Our Guest, Renzo Borgatti. @reborg on Twitter reborg on Github https://reborg.net/ Clojure: The Essential Reference from Manning Announcements ElixirConf EU is taking place the 9th and 10th of June, with training running the 6th-8th. For more information and to get your tickets visit https://www.elixirconf.eu/. :clojureD is taking place June 11th in Berlin, . Visit https://clojured.de/ for more information and to submit your proposal. Lambda Days 2022 has been moved to the 28th and 29th of July in Krakow, Poland. Visit lambdadays.org to keep up to date. Some of you have asked how you can Functional Geekery, in that vein, Functional Geekery now has a Patreon Page. If that is one of the ways you would like to show your , you can find out more at https://www.patreon.com/fngeekery. Discount Code Use code podgeekery20 to save 40% off your order at Manning.com Topics [@2:44] Welcome Renzo About Renzo Java Fermilab Ruby on Rails Objective C Clojure InfoQ Clojure Koans What kind of foundation looking at Ruby from Java set for Clojure Landing on Clojure too late to chat freely with Rich Hickey on IRC Components as a way for dependency injection Common Functional ideas Renzo wound up adopting before leaving Java Understanding the idioms of Clojure and the effect they have on code Learning how to organize larger codebases Limitations of working with a restricted vocabulary “Being curious about what else was there and I was not using” Reading Clojure source code Refreshing one-self by looking at Clojure source code Clojure: The Essential Reference from Manning What Hidden Gems found when writing the book fnil juxt Combinators Swap combinator Scheme “Understanding what does it mean to be a Lisp” Actor Model Continuations Project Loom Project Loom Proposal Other insights from working on the book Software Transaction Memory “It made me realize how deep, and how thought out, the implementation in Clojure is” Clojure for the Brave and the True Clojure Programming Other things Renzo is involved with parallel Wishing for an “Audible for [Technical] Papers” Out of the Tar Pit Papers We Love presentations re:Clojure Takeaways from re:Clojure Clojurians Podcast Virtual conference benefits Hybrid conferences as an interesting experiment to give best of both worlds Lambda Days Elixir Conf EU Erlang Solutions Code Sync Code Mesh Tower of Interpreters Stratified Design JUXT The new Clojure “iteration” function blog post Prolog Datalog Expert Systems As always, a giant Thank You goes to David Belcher for the logo design. 2v263c