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The Clojure Workshop

By : Joseph Fahey, Thomas Haratyk, Scott McCaughie, Yehonathan Sharvit, Konrad Szydlo
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The Clojure Workshop

By: Joseph Fahey, Thomas Haratyk, Scott McCaughie, Yehonathan Sharvit, Konrad Szydlo

Overview of this book

The Clojure Workshop is a step-by-step guide to Clojure and ClojureScript, designed to quickly get you up and running as a confident, knowledgeable developer. Because of the functional nature of the language, Clojure programming is quite different to what many developers will have experienced. As hosted languages, Clojure and ClojureScript can also be daunting for newcomers because of complexities in the tooling and the challenge of interacting with the host platforms. To help you overcome these barriers, this book adopts a practical approach. Every chapter is centered around building something. As you progress through the book, you will progressively develop the 'muscle memory' that will make you a productive Clojure programmer, and help you see the world through the concepts of functional programming. You will also gain familiarity with common idioms and patterns, as well as exposure to some of the most widely used libraries. Unlike many Clojure books, this Workshop will include significant coverage of both Clojure and ClojureScript. This makes it useful no matter your goal or preferred platform, and provides a fresh perspective on the hosted nature of the language. By the end of this book, you'll have the knowledge, skills and confidence to creatively tackle your own ambitious projects with Clojure and ClojureScript.
Table of Contents (17 chapters)
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2. Data Types and Immutability

Introduction

Ever since the Clojure language was first introduced, its concurrency model has been one of its major selling points. In programming, the word "concurrency" can apply to a lot of different situations. To start with a simple definition, any time your program or your system has more than one simultaneous flow of operations, you are dealing with concurrency. In multithreaded Java programs, that would mean code running simultaneously in separate processor threads. Each processor thread follows its own internal logic, but to work properly your program needs to coordinate the communication between the different threads. Even though JavaScript runtimes are single-threaded, both the browser and Node.js environments have their own ways of dealing with simultaneous logical flows. While the roots of Clojure's concurrency are definitely in Java, some of the ideas and tools apply equally in ClojureScript.

In this chapter, you will learn the basics of concurrent programming...