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I'm still salty about Specter[0] not being ~officially recognised as a necessity when using Clojure.

[0] https://github.com/redplanetlabs/specter

Data driven languages need simple & powerful transformation libraries. `get-in` is repetitive and tiresome to use.

Specter and it's ilk make transformations clear and simple.

No amount of planning or foresight negates the need for data transformation libraries.

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Well, it's not a necessity, and it exists a library that anyone can use, so I don't understand any reason to be salty.

My saltiness has to do with being presented with a situation(whilst still new to clojure) which required quite deep data transformations and using idiomatic core clojure functions for ~3 days before saying there has to be a better way and then searching and ending up on Specter.

It's not a necessity in the same way XPath wasn't a necessity to interrogate XML.

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