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by chpill 3239 days ago
Writing your own transducers is hard and error prone, but I think using and composing the ones given you by clojure.core is actually rather easy (Especially using the 3 arity of `into`).

I don't use so many `->>` anymore thanks to them.
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KirinDave 3239 days ago
I dunno. Except for one very specific project, I've yet to see a "Wow!" use case for transducers. The only place where they really shine is working with channels, but I think channels are a big design mistake (after extensive work trying to tame them).
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arximboldi 3239 days ago
Interesting! Why do you think they are a big design mistake? I can understand how they can be misused, but I find myself missing them in every language I used that doesn't have them...
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KirinDave 3239 days ago
So either I'd rather talk about the COMPUTATION and resource safety rather than the channel, as in Pipes/Conduit/Streaming from haskell.

OR, I'd rather deal with a direct actor model a la Erlang, Pony and Cloud Haskell.

Go's experience is so goddamn miserable it should just put the entire notion of async channels as a higher level programming library to bed. As a low-level primitive, it's okay but not fundamental.

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