Interview and Q&A with David Nolen

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A live Q&A explains why ClojureScript gets small maintainable apps: a production stack uses Clojure everywhere including crypto and two React Native apps, the REPL workflow edits running code in browser node and mobile, persistent data structures let UI diffs become pointer comparisons producing a reported 10x speed boost, tooling like krell delivers hot reloading preserves state, core compiler is ~20k LOC (50k with tests) and aims for 25k gzipped.

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1. 0:00Start
2. 2:14David Nolan
3. 12:39What Is React
4. 14:26Persistent Data Structures
5. 32:17Design the Right Type System
6. 49:46React Native
7. 59:40Development of Clojure
8. 1:00:33Lumo
9. 1:00:51Plock
10. 1:03:57Multi-Threading

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