[hlship]

Reverse engineering:

Some of the things that Clojure generates are valid bytecode for which there is no Java source code equivalent.

Reusing the pieces:

In general, Clojure works so well because it is all of a piece, with many decisions and subsystems working together. Datomic's source is the same way, you can't really consume just part of the elephant, even if you had the source code. Many things that Datomic does simply don't make sense at all out of context.

[derefr]

Maybe, rather than taking pieces out of Datomic to use elsewhere, I want to take pieces of other things and stick them inside Datomic :)