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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 f

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 https://clojuredocs.org/clojure.core/deref

raspasov 5y ago
EDIT (typo): "(deref ...)" not "(defer ...)"
rjerue 5y ago
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