Solving Problems the Clojure Way - Rafal Dittwald

Why HN readers recommended it

HN repeatedly recommends it as a fantastic demonstration of procedural, OOP and FP approaches to the same problem, and of functional core and imperative shell.

This is a summary from the source dataset, not an endorsement by Hacker News or the video creator.

Video & recommendation details

Creator / channel

Clojure/north

Topic

functional programming in clojure

Format

talk

Level

intermediate

HN recommenders in dataset

10

HN mentions in dataset

15

Recommendation years in dataset

2019–2025

These counts and years describe the included Hacker News records; they are not YouTube views or the video’s publication date.

From the original HN conversations

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• Watch the video via recommendations here, but no longer can find it. [Solving Problems the Clojure Way - Rafal Dittwald]( [VIDEO] ) It is a great video and is highly recommended. Spent two days to type and tidy up the source code. If you want …

• Sometimes the architecture/algorithm matters, and sometimes the architecture/algorithm needs to align with the language. Absent seeing the broader code base [1], I'm inclined to think that the author's larger design led to these expensive functions existing as they did [2]. Pure speculation on my part, …

• -- (Even if you don't read this whole comment, I urge you to watch this fantastic video which illustrates procedural, OOP(lite), and FP approaches to a sample problem: [VIDEO] (Despite the name, it illustrates JavaScript, not Clojure). If you follow this approach, you don't even …