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Re:State of Clojure 2020 by samatman on Thursday February 20, 2020 @10:04PM (#22380633)
Metabase is focused on analytics, which is in a way the dual of forms: https://github.com/metabase/metabase

Clojure has great potential for what you're describing.

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Re:State of Clojure 2020 by uryga on Thursday February 20, 2020 @11:25PM (#22380942)
could you explain "analytics are the dual of forms" a bit? sounds intriguing!
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Re:State of Clojure 2020 by samatman on Friday February 21, 2020 @12:43AM (#22381174)
Ah that was just a bit of a rhetorical flourish.

Forms put data into databases, analytics take it out and do stuff with it. That's kinda like a dual, if you squint and wave your hands enough.

Where VBA is concerned, forms to put data into the database, and analysis/report programs that take it out again, have always been the main use cases.

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