Expert to Expert: Rich Hickey and Brian Beckman - Inside Clojure

Why HN readers recommended it

HN commenters call it a fantastic introduction to Clojure and the thinking behind its design.

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

Video & recommendation details

Creator / channel

jasonofthel33t

Topic

clojure language design

Format

interview

Level

intermediate

HN recommenders in dataset

3

HN mentions in dataset

5

Recommendation years in dataset

2014–2025

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From the original HN conversations

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• I'd like to learn Clojure. Any suggestions on how to get started? It's my first time using a Lisp dialect. I figured I'd tackle the Clojure Koans, and mix in a few Project Euler problems. I'd also like to do some code reading. I know …

• Um, destructuring is a very old concept in Lisp circles. [LINK] Don't know if Rich first got the idea from Lisp or not, but it seems likely since he did a bunch of development in Common Lisp (generating C++, of all things :-D ) ages …

• > What I don’t understand the advantage for “state management”. Like, you build a new state object, and then mutate some pointer from prevState to nextState… that’s what everyone else is doing too. Clojure's real super power is its reference type(s) (in particular the atom). …