What's next for Transducers.jl? | Protter | JuliaCon 2024

What's next for Transducers.jl? by Mason Protter
PreTalx: pretalx.com/ju...
[Transducers.jl](github.com/Jul...) is a package concerned with decoupling the traversal of a piece of data from various transformations one might apply to that data, and provides a more efficient, composable, and reusable alternative to things like `Iterators` or simple `for` loops.
While Transducers.jl is based heavily off of the concepts [pioneered and implemented in Clojure](clojure.org/re..., Transducers.jl has a lot of ideas of it's own, including a very powerful and general approach to parallelism, and inventing a lot of useful techniques in preserving type stability in very difficult circumstances.
Today, maintaining Transducers.jl is a very difficult task, namely because the current maintainers are not the original authors of the majority of the code, and the project is not only quite large, but it contains a lot of highly non-obvious techniques.
In this talk, I want to give users an introduction to using Transducers.jl, as well as show a bit about our plans for the next generation of transducers in Julia.

[@aaronkaw4857]

This gives declarative syntax vibes like in grammar of graphics. I am a fan, I'm definitely going to start using this package.

[@uthoshantm]

I never thought about combining functions prior to being applied vs piping data through consecutive functions. That's the power of Julia.

[@aaronkaw4857]

Julia really delivers on its promise to bring in together the strengths of many programming paradigms in a composable way, it's awesome.