Lessons on Writing JavaScript and React from ClojureScript

Re:Lessons on Writing JavaScript and React from ClojureScript by raspasov on Sunday May 09, 2021 @03:14AM (#27093914)

Congrats on the new job! Clojure(Script) is great. I remember how excited I was when I first "understood" Clojure.

One small note:

"There are also @ symbols for expressing async behavior."

@ is just a reader macro, aka shortcut, for (defer ...) in Clojure(Script). https://clojuredocs.org/clojure.core/deref

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Re:Lessons on Writing JavaScript and React from ClojureScript by rjerue on Sunday May 09, 2021 @07:35AM (#27095168)

Haha, the number of folks who have told me this! Yeah, probably a byproduct of the era I learned in. I just reach for the macro first, just what it's programmed into my head as

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Re:Lessons on Writing JavaScript and React from ClojureScript by raspasov on Sunday May 09, 2021 @06:38AM (#27094864)

EDIT (typo): "(deref ...)" not "(defer ...)"

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