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While we're on the subject, here's my super nitpicky complaint abour mori: the use of snake_case when almost all JS is camelCase.

In the simple little project where I used mori, I did this:

    const {
      get,
      conj,
      js_to_clj: map,
      clj_to_js: pretty
    } = mori;

But I bet you lose a surprisingly large number of JS devs due to just having the "wrong" names. Maybe I should publish a camel-case-mori module on npm...

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This is because mori is written in ClojureScript. For the most part, all mori is doing is exporting pieces of Clojure so that the native JavaScript environment can access them[1]. In Clojure, the naming convention is "foo-bar", and the cljs compiler translates that to "foo_bar".

I can't imagine changing the cljs compiler or adding a piece to mori that must be maintained is important enough for this. I'd imagine Swannodette's answer would be "you should use ClojureScript anyway" :)

[1] -- https://github.com/swannodette/mori/blob/master/src/mori.clj...

I don't think it'd be a huge issue in any case, probably just a case of providing a handler for name conversions. Not sure if it's worth the extra code lying around, but anything that potentially makes cljs a better actor in the js world is nice.

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