Functional-navigational programming in Clojure(Script) with Specter - thoughts from the red planet - thoughts from the red planet

In February I open-sourced a library called Specter, and in my own work it has become by far my most-used library. It has changed the way I approach some fundamental aspects of programming, namely how I interact with and manipulate my program's data. I call the approach I take now "functional-navigational programming". I'm not the first one to come up with these ideas, nor is it a full-fledged par