Svante von Erichsen introduces the de.otto/nom library and compares different error handling approaches in Clojure.
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Title: **How I learned to stop worrying and ignore anomalies**
Speaker: **Svante von Erichsen**
Time: **2022-03-29 @ (London time)**
Local time: time.is/1830_29_Mar_2022_in_London/ (click here for local time)
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Svante von Erichsen (github.com/Harleqin) will be presenting:
"How I learned to stop worrying and ignore anomalies"
Anomalies are a way to return errors in your program flow, made
popular by e. g. several Cognitect libraries. We recently published a
toolbox, de.otto/nom (github.com/otto-de/nom) for ignoring
them on the happy path. In this talk, we'll see what it does and
compare that with some alternatives, such as railway-oriented
programming, exceptions, and Failjure. This might be a missing piece,
a sweet spot, or a crazy idea.
Svante is a software developer at OTTO, a large e-commerce platform
from Hamburg. Originally a chemist, he started learning Common Lisp
around 2008. After starting with professional software development in
2011, he joined a startup using Clojure in 2016, and in 2018 switched
to a team at OTTO also working in Clojure. His non-programming
interests include playing Go, training Karate, and making Music.
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Why it's here
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What people say. Recommended as a good comparison of various ways to handle anomalies and errors in Clojure.
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…d container.
So maybe that option was what you were really looking for all along :)
## Alternatively...
You could consider errors as values like https://github.com/fmnoise/flow or https://github.com/otto-de/nom (which is a nice helper for the concepts expressed in https://github.com/cognitect-labs/anomalies).
Here's a talk on anomalies and nom link to this video
I've just meandered here, but if you have specific follow up questions please fire away, I'll try to help.…
