Was trying to figure out what defrecord does in the impl of ILookup it generates and I absolutely do not understand that magic. Essentially it amounts to (get __extmap key)  and I can’t even figure out how this magical __extmap gets into scope (a global or some special runtime thing?) and this isn’t even used. Confused

zerusski on Clojurians Slack

This post on Clojurians sent me down the rabbit hole looking for where this “mysterious” __extmap comes from. It really isn’t obvious at first, but when I found it, it was “wow” times “duh”.

Next up in the series complaining about Clojure’s Java interop is proxy. While vararg method calls are inconvenient at worst, there are some (I’d say common) things that simply cannot be achieved with proxy.

Once again this is something I ran into while working with Netty. In one of the HTTP/2 examples, they have one implementation extending AbstractHttp2ConnectionHandlerBuilder<T, B> (have I mentioned I find these extremely long Java class names just hilarious?). The Java implementation is pretty straightforward: implement the abstract method of the class and be done with it.