Sometimes, Clojure seems to miss operations that feel like they should be in clojure.core. I'm clearly not the only one who has felt this way, as evidenced by James Reeves's medley library. These miss...
Mastering Deques
Welcome back to Clojure Is Awesome! In Part 15, we’re diving into the Deque (double-ended queue)—a data structure that shines with its ability to add or remove elements f...
Vector
A vector in Clojure is an ordered, indexed, immutable collection that allows efficient random access and fast additions at the end. They are immutable.Vectors are defined using square ...
Clojure practice task:
Managing User Permissions with Sets
You are developing a role-based access control system for a web application. Each user has a set of permissions (e.g., :read, :write,...
Exploring Binary Trees with Functional Elegance
Hey, folks—who’d have thought I’d be back after such a long hiatus? It’s been weeks since my last post in this awesome community, but I...
Adapting the DTO Pattern to Functional Bliss
Welcome back to Clojure Is Awesome! In Part 17, we’re crossing the bridge from the object-oriented world to functional territory by adapting the...
Clojure and Java Interoperability
Hey everyone! Welcome back to Clojure Is Awesome! After a bit of a break, I’m thrilled to be back with Part 18, diving into one of Clojure’s superpowers:...
We’ll dive into pattern matching using the core.match library in Clojure
This powerful tool allows you to handle complex data structures in a declarative and concise way, making your code m...
Deep Dive into Clojure's reduce Function
What is reduce?
In Clojure, reduce is a fundamental function in functional programming that processes a collection by iteratively applying a ...
The Origins and Foundations of Clojure
Welcome to Part 21 of the Clojure Is Awesome series! Today, we’re taking a step back from code to explore the roots of Clojure—where it came from, w...