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"Transducers" by Rich Hickey
Rich Hickey introduces transducers in Clojure, a way to make map, filter and similar algorithms composable independent of the data source. This avoids duplicated implementations and intermediate collections across sequences, channels and streams.
Why HN readers recommended it
HN treats it as the original and definitive explanation of transducers, recommended whenever the concept comes up.
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Video & recommendation details
- Creator / channel
- Strange Loop Conference
- Topic
- transducers
- Format
- talk
- Level
- intermediate
- HN recommenders in dataset
- 6
- HN mentions in dataset
- 9
- Recommendation years in dataset
- 2014–2025
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From the original HN conversations
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Transducers are IMHO one of the most under-appreciated features of Clojure. If you want a really good intro, watch Rich Hickey's talk about transducers: [VIDEO] (Rich is an excellent speaker and most of his talks are really worth watching, even if you don't use Clojure). …
jwr on Hacker News · 2025-11
In Transducer: Composition, abstraction, performance (2018)That and they're collection agnostic. I highly recommend watching Rich Hickey's talk for more background: [VIDEO]
rymohr on Hacker News · 2014-10
In Transducers for JavaScriptHere's another video by Rick Hickey about transducers: [VIDEO] - it was referenced in this great post detailing the transducer notion with Clojure, Scala, and Haskell: [LINK]
ultimape on Hacker News · 2014-11
In Rich Hickey – Inside Transducers [video]
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