ClojureWeb in 7 Big Ideas - stuarthalloway/presentations GitHub Wiki

Abstract

The key to understanding Clojure web development is ideas, not language constructs. In this talk, we will approach Clojure web development via 7 Big Ideas:

• edn, not json
• core.async, not callbacks
• platform, not language
• data, not objects
• protocols, not interfaces
• libraries, not frameworks
• Ash za durbatulûk!

Detailed Abstract

The key to understanding Clojure web development is ideas, not language constructs. In this talk, we will approach Clojure web development via 7 Big Ideas:

• edn, not json
• core.async, not callbacks
• platform, not language
• data, not objects
• protocols, not interfaces
• libraries, not frameworks
• Ash za durbatulûk!

Each of these ideas is valuable and useful a la carte, and not necessarily only in Clojure. Taken together, they begin to fill in the picture of why Clojure is changing the way many programmers think about web development.