Optimizing Tail Call Optimizations, CLJS compilation pipeline, and calling private functions — Apr 25

This is the recording of a talk about making Tail Call Optimization performant enought in the Clojure/JVM. I couldn’t find the slides, and the video is not good enough to read the slides either, but the audio is good.

In this article Michael Fogus describes ClojureScripts compilation pipeline and how projects like Typed Clojure or binary compilation via Gambit fit in.

This is an awesome trick that has many uses, for example writing unit tests for a private function, or using private functions in macros. Both would not be possible if it wasn’t for this workaround the privacy of functions.