This article might appeal to some out of curiousity but it is not of much practical value. Design patterns are not a thing in Clojure. The whole idea behind the

This article might appeal to some out of curiousity but it is not of much practical value. Design patterns are not a thing in Clojure. The whole idea behind the flexibility of the language is that you don't need a pre-existing pattern to force on your problem; instead, the language makes it possible for each problem to build its own pattern. (And that is the point, I think, in this article.) I've worked with and around Clojure developers for years now, and no one talks about traditional design patterns. Design patterns add complexity, not simplicity, to a language. By contrast, Clojure solutions are relatively simple. Design patterns often evolve in languages where you struggle against the language's design to express a solution. When a language strips away those obstacles, pre-existing patterns become less necessary.