I like Clojure a lot and I consider the community tops in intellectual firepower. That being said, there is nothing great about transducers, they are merely a

I like Clojure a lot and I consider the community tops in intellectual firepower. That being said, there is nothing great about transducers, they are merely a necessary hack because of Clojure's immutable data structures. To get around this computation bottleneck, you mutate the code instead of the data. So transducers are a great hack, but not a great feature of the language, more of a necessary evil.