Cheers to the 14th trip around the sun of the language that’s made up of data! In this episode, Esko, Matti and Toni discuss Clojure, REPL, and how you can use them in your next project.

Guests

Matti Lankinen’s programming career started from the little boy's dream of making his own games. C++ was too hard at the time, so he started making his own programming language. It was never finished. (Hands up, who can relate?)

Toni Vanhala learned the alphabet by typing on the keyboard and copying BASIC programs his mother read aloud. A couple decades later, Toni got his Ph.D. after programming a custom gaze tracker, virtual humans that react to facial expressions, and a chair that senses emotions.

Host

Esko Lahti is an engineer who now works in the company that got him into Clojure. Now, his party trick at meetups is to rapid fire through an extensive list of parentheses jokes.

Episode links

• The Clojure programming language: https://clojure.org/
• Shadow CLJS: https://shadow-cljs.github.io/docs/UsersGuide.html
• Leiningen: https://leiningen.org/
• Pedestal: https://github.com/pedestal/pedestal
• clojurians.slack.com community (invite link): http://clojurians.net/
• Reitit, data-driven router for Clojure(Script): https://github.com/metosin/reitit
• clj-kondo, a linter for Clojure: https://github.com/clj-kondo/clj-kondo
• cljfmt, a tool for formatting Clojure: https://github.com/weavejester/cljfmt
• Hiccup, a library for representing HTML in Clojure: https://github.com/weavejester/hiccup
• Integrant: https://github.com/weavejester/integrant
• Cursive, the Clojure(Script) IDE: https://cursive-ide.com/
• Nightlight, an embedded editor for Clojure: https://sekao.net/nightlight/
• Reagent, React for ClojureScript: https://reagent-project.github.io/
• re-frame, a ClojureScript framework for UIs: https://github.com/day8/re-frame
• Rich Hickey’s most influential talks: https://changelog.com/posts/rich-hickeys-greatest-hits

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