< Cross posted from pedestal-users group, as many people who are not using pedestal may still know about dataflow, terms like effect are used in the context of pedestal >
Pedestal seems strongly based on dataflow based programming. The gigantic tutorial just sort of jumps in on it. Based on my usage thus far, dataflow seems really good at modeling problems that are self contained. In their pure forms (no external inputs or internal effects), dataflow seems almost like a circuit diagram. However, I quickly get confused once we start dealing with effects. Seems that there is a large "Here be Dragons" area of code in that region (services.cljs). I feel that this may not be dataflow's fault; I just haven't got my head around it. When I look at dataflow, I feel like it is constraining me to a particular way of solving a problem. The upside of this is that I have made my logic declarative and potentially easier to reason about. This is a trade-offs that seems similar to the trade-offs one makes when moving from a mutable procedural programming model to a immutable functional model. I have yet to personally get substantial benefit from dataflow, but that does not mean I will not with more mastery. I am wondering if there are any any getting started guides for dataflow programming that you (the community) would recommend. I would be especially interested in "recipe books" for dataflow based programming. How do you really do asynchronous processing with dataflow? What if your asyncs may return in a random order but must be processed in a specified order? A few books/articles/whatever on how experts think through these problems could be quite beneficial. -- -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Clojure" group. To post to this group, send email to clojure@googlegroups.com Note that posts from new members are moderated - please be patient with your first post. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to clojure+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/clojure?hl=en --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Clojure" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to clojure+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
