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Philly ETE 2016 – Dmitri Sotnikov – Transforming Enterprise Development with Clojure

Monolithic projects will often have tight coupling between components, resulting in codebases that are large and unwieldy. This directly impacts productivity, and translates into costs for the organization. In this session we will explore the aspects of Clojure that encourage writing code that is loosely coupled and reusable. We will discuss the benefits of the Clojure approach, and we will see how it applies in practice with a live demo.

TechCast #90 – Clojure Conj 2015

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ClojureConj is the yearly get-together for the Clojure community, and Chariot was a sponsor this year as it happened in our backyard. What follows is a quick conversation with Chariot consultants Dan Boykis, Anatoly Polinsky, and Ron Lusk about their week attending the Conj. We apologize for the noise on the recording – people were … Read More

Philly ETE 2015 #27 – Stuart Halloway – core.async: Concurrency without Callbacks

In this talk, we will cover the design of core.async, and then move directly to exploring core.async’s capabilities. Finally, we will assemble these primitives into substantial working programs, building toward the Holy Grail of async: substantial UI application development in the browser, with no callbacks in sight.

Philly ETE 2015 – Jessica Kerr – Contracts and Clojure: The Best-Yet Compromise Between Types and Tests

Explore the potential of contracts as the best-yet compromise between types and tests. No Clojure experience (or interest) needed.

Philly ETE 2015 #4 – Jessica Kerr – Contracts and Clojure: The Best-Yet Compromise Between Types and Tests

Explore the potential of contracts as the best-yet compromise between types and tests. No Clojure experience (or interest) needed.

Philly ETE 2015 – Stuart Halloway – core.async: Concurrency without Callbacks

Philly ETE 2014 #23 – What if Type Checkers Were More Like Linters? – Ambrose Bonnaire-Sergeant

From the abstract: Typed Clojure is a gradual type system for Clojure and ClojureScript. In practice, type checking resembles “linting”: it is separate from compilation and must be called explicitly. This has some interesting implications. Instead of porting your old code to a “typed” variant of your language, you can gradually add type annotations and … Read More

Philly ETE 2014 – Ambrose Bonnaire-Sergeant – What if Type Checkers were more like Linters?

By separating the type checker from the compiler, we avoid infecting the rest of the language with the massive complexities of a static type system. Our compiler is simple and robust, our language design is unrestricted by an arbitrary type system, and our users are free to choose the right type system for the job.

In this talk, we explore this idea further and demonstrate what such a type system is like to use.

Go Go Golang

Eric Snyder recently wrote a post about comparing Clojure and Go on his blog.

“There are 2 programming languages that I am into at the moment, Clojure and Go (http://golang.org). They seem to be opposites of each other in many ways, how can I love both?”

TechCast #81 – Recap of the StrangeLoop 2013 conference with Joe Berger, Dan Boykis and Anatoly Polinsky

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In this podcast, I am joined by Dan Boykis and Anatoly Polinsky, two of our Chariot consultants who attended The Strange Loop conference in September. I also have some reflections from Chariot consultant Joe Berger, provided via email. Strange Loop is a 2-day conference with wraparound tutorials, and also contained a language “un-conference” by Alex Payne.