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I really don't understand what flow is and what problem it solves. I've read the commit comments and some posts but I still don't get it.
by masijo 2y ago
I really don't understand what flow is and what problem it solves. I've read the commit comments and some posts but I still don't get it.
- slowmovintarget 2y agoHere's Rich Hickey's explanation if it helps: https://www.reddit.com/r/Clojure/comments/1i27n1k/rich_introduces_new_namespace_in_coreasync_flow/ https://www.reddit.com/r/Clojure/comments/1i27n1k/rich_intro... His comment walks you through what it's for. The basics: configure your flow of data from producer to queue to consumer and so on as data, in one place.
- 392 2y agoI've poked around three of those links and still not found an accessible good reason. But I am excited to try this, having never used this language before. It rolls into the language a perfect abstraction for deterministically simulating software. See Antithesis's big promises for more. I'm curious to see if this model of flows can be ported to other languages.