The complete first edition is available

[Zach Tellman]

I'm thrilled and relieved to announce that the complete first edition of Elements of Clojure is now complete.  A special thanks for Julie Moronuki (@argumatronic) for her excellent copy-editing.  

This book was first conceived as a small collection of guiding principles for writing reasonable Clojure, because I had seen too many people get twisted up over whether they were using Clojure the "right" way.  In the intervening years, it became something else.  I realized my ability to write effective Clojure didn't mean I could explain my own design decisions.  I had to dig deeper, and so I did.  I read, and pondered, and quit my job, and read some more.  

The result is something that sits halfway between the book I originally meant to write and the book I'd eventually like to write.  At some point I intend to further refine the ideas in Elements and bring them to a broader audience.  This project is tentatively entitled "Principles of Software".  I have no idea when it will start, and even less when it will be done.

Many people have asked about getting physical copies of the book.  I'm currently looking into a few options, and will share more once I've found something satisfactory.  If anyone has recommendations or cautionary tales to share, please feel free to email me.  

I want to thank everyone for their support over the last few years.  The emails, tweets, and kind words at conferences have made this difficult project much more bearable.  I hope you find the wait has been worthwhile.

Zach

[Gavin Sinclair]

Hearty congratulations, Zach. It is a fine read.

Gavin

[Petrus Theron]

Link to book?

[Zach Tellman]

https://leanpub.com/elementsofclojure

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[Shaun Parker]

Congratulations Zach! I can't wait to read the final version. I really appreciate all of your work, especially this book. It's the best technical book I've read since Designing Data-Intensive Applications. I can't wait to have a physical copy on my bookshelf. 

Cheers,

Shaun

[Zach Tellman]

It's been brought to my attention that the syntax highlighting in this release was a little wonky: the hyphen in the threading macros was bright red.  I've identified the issue, and fixed it.  If this was bothering you, please re-download the book.

Zach

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