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Understanding Specter: Clojure's missing piece

Misophistful · tutorial · Watch on YouTube

Functional programming

What it is

A screencast tutorial on Specter, a Clojure library for navigating and transforming nested data structures declaratively, demonstrated in a REPL.

Why Hacker News recommends it

Pointed to as a short, clear demonstration of how Specter simplifies manipulating complex nested data.

  • 1 people recommended it
  • 1 different months
  • 0 strong recommendations
  • first 2017, last 2021

What HN commenters said

  1. “I highly recommend watching this short video to see how it works.”

    Short video showing how Specter declaratively transforms complex data.

    yogthos, 2017-10 · Recommendation · in “Why I'm Productive in Clojure (2013)”

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Topics: clojure, specter, nested data, functional programming, repl

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