Gaiwan / Heart of Clojure (Page 3)

Learning Fennel from Scratch to Develop Neovim Plugins

Apr 16, 2025 7 min read Lambda Island

by Laurence Chen As a Neovim user writing Clojure, I often watch my colleagues modifying Elisp to create plugins—for example, setting a shortcut key to convert Hiccup-formatted data in the editor into

Solving Datomic BI Integration: Why We Built Plenish

Mar 26, 2025 4 min read Plenish

Metabase doesn’t work with Datalog? A high-performance, low-maintenance data sync solution for seamless BI dashboards

On Inspectability

Mar 20, 2025 6 min read Lambda Island

by Laurence Chen At the beginning of 2025, I took over a client project at Gaiwan. It was a legacy code maintenance project that used re-frame. While familiarizing myself with the codebase, I

On Extensibility

Feb 18, 2025 5 min read Lambda Island

by Laurence Chen For a long time, I had a misunderstanding about Clojure: I always thought that the extensibility Clojure provides was just about macros. Not only that, but many articles I read

Why Clojure?

Feb 18, 2025 17 min read

This is about a 17 minute read. Feel free to pause and come back to it later. Clojure is not one of the handful of "big" mainstream languages. This means that