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Mastering Clojure. Understand the philosophy of the Clojure language and dive into its inner workings to unlock its advanced features, methodologies, and constructs

Mastering Clojure. Understand the philosophy of the Clojure language and dive into its inner workings to unlock its advanced features, methodologies, and constructs

Akhil Wali

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Clojure is a general-purpose language from the Lisp family with an emphasis on functional programming. It has some interesting concepts and features such as immutability, gradual typing, thread-safe concurrency primitives, and macro-based metaprogramming, which makes it a great choice to create modern, performant, and scalable applications.

Mastering Clojure gives you an insight into the nitty-gritty details and more advanced features of the Clojure programming language to create more scalable, maintainable, and elegant applications. You’ll start off by learning the details of sequences, concurrency primitives, and macros. Packed with a lot of examples, you’ll get a walkthrough on orchestrating concurrency and parallelism, which will help you understand Clojure reducers, and we’ll walk through composing transducers so you know about functional composition and process transformation inside out. We also explain how reducers and transducers can be used to handle data in a more performant manner.

Later on, we describe how Clojure also supports other programming paradigms such as pure functional programming and logic programming. Furthermore, you’ll level up your skills by taking advantage of Clojure's powerful macro system. Parallel, asynchronous, and reactive programming techniques are also described in detail.

Lastly, we’ll show you how to test and troubleshoot your code to speed up your development cycles and allow you to deploy the code faster.
  • 1. Working with Sequences and Types
  • 2. Orchestrating Concurrency and Parallelism
  • 3. Parallelization using Reducers
  • 4. Writing Macros
  • 5. Composing Transducers
  • 6. Using Functors and Monads
  • 7. Programming with Logic
  • 8. Leveraging Asynchronous Tasks
  • 9. Reactive Programming
  • 10. Working with Tests
  • 11. Troubleshooting and Best Practices
  • Title: Mastering Clojure. Understand the philosophy of the Clojure language and dive into its inner workings to unlock its advanced features, methodologies, and constructs
  • Author: Akhil Wali
  • Original title: Mastering Clojure. Understand the philosophy of the Clojure language and dive into its inner workings to unlock its advanced features, methodologies, and constructs
  • ISBN: 9781785882050, 9781785882050
  • Date of issue: 2016-03-28
  • Format: Ebook
  • Item ID: e_3c53
  • Publisher: Packt Publishing