A FP hater, integration tests with social networks, a Java bytecode compiler, and WIP on persistent queue reader literals — May 01

Now this is one rant! Not everybody thinks that statelessness is a worthy goal. Some even think that striving for immutablility is evil. But some go even further and rant about how they think Functional Programming is “worse than crap.”

If you are writing an application that interacts with a social network you probably already know how hard it can be to test against the services provided by such social network. This library aids at creating automated integration tests against social networks.

This is not a library to generate Java bytecode. Instead, this turns bytecode into machine code for direct execution by the CPU. Crawl is a Clojure re-implementation of OpenJDK’s Graal.

Leveraging the new extensible reader literals in Clojure 1.4, Michael Fogus is implementing a reader literal for persistent queues. Check out the tests to figure out how it will look.