(= 'clamda (+ 'clojure 'ramda))

clamda is clojure.core on ramda steroids.

Clojure is an utterly brilliant programming language that has fundamentally changed the way I think about writing software.

ramda is a fantastic functional library for the JavaScript/Node community, and though I am loving Clojure, I do miss ramda. Like... a lot.

clojure.core warts

Clojure is a fantastic functional language with an incredible core library. But some of the design choices and naming leave me wanting a more consistent way to work with the core utilities. The downside of some of clojure.core include:

• Reliance on variadic techniques which are in stark contrast to data-last/currying. (See assoc, update, et. al)
• Weird naming imbalances (e.g. every? vs some, not to be confused with some? which is (complement nil?)...)

ramda saves the day?

Yes, I'm telling you Clojure could learn a few things from a scrappy JS library that I have really grown to love. ramda has a pretty good API where:

• Most functions are curried and the data to be operated on comes last.
• Solid functional primitives for replacing logic flows like ifElse, when, tryCatch, etc.
• Advanced primitives like applySpec and evolve for functional map/object construction.

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I wrote clamda to fill in some missing gaps in the clojure core API, and I hope you find them useful. Some things I did:

• Provided currying primitives curry, curry-n, and even a defcurry macro.
• Wrote pretty much the rest of clamda using defcurry.
• Used "clojurized" ramda fn names (like pathSatisfies -> path-satisfies, or pathEq -> pathEq).
• Used "clojure-y" names where it seemed a better fit for layering on top of existing names (like >, >=, if, when, etc).
• Wrap existing clojure fns that had the arguments in the "wrong" order, and curried the fn (like select-keys, now called pick).
• Made thread-frist core fns curried/thread-last (see assoc, assoc-in, update, update-in).

You'll also notice that I haven't included everything from ramda, at least not yet. My guess is that there are plenty of fns in ramda that won't need translation simply because Clojure already supports (or negates the need for) some of them.

And before you get all mad about Rich being "Right About Everything", I don't really care. Rich is brilliant and made an amazing language, but I like curried/data-last fns more than I like variadic fns and macro thread rewriting of argument passing. Both approaches have a lot of value and I plan on continuin to write variadic functions (sometimes with curry-n to really turn up the juice). I know, salty. How do you know you won't like it until you try it though...