Peter Strömberg, aka "PEZ", is a Clojure programmer and creator of the popular Calva plug-in for VSCode. In this episode we do a deep-dive into Clojure and explore the power of Lisp and dynamically typed functional programming.

Topics covered:

REPL-driven development

Data-oriented programming

Lisp and Macros

What makes Clojure special

Popular Clojure libraries

Episode links:

Func prog conf

Calva

Calva MCP

Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs

Guardrails⁠

Jank

Babashka

Squint

Malli

The Value of Values

Simple Made Easy

⁠⁠"Just use maps"

Kandria

GOAL - Game-oriented Assembly Lisp

Purely Functional Data Structures

Paul Graham's Lisp paper

David Nolen

Parens of the Dead

Fred Overflow

Christian Johansen

Easel Editor