@aartaka @muhanga Weird string keys are definitely annoying… once you’ve gone down the keyword route, you sure wish everyone else had too.

The destructuring syntax honestly doesn’t bother me anymore (after years of using it, to be fair), though it does get hard to read with a lot of nesting, and I occasionally battle with myself about how I want to indent it (being a person who usually likes to align keys across lines).

@muhanga @aartaka I'd guess another factor in the design decision is the special keys like :as, :keys, :or, etc. which are somewhat analogous to keyword arguments, and thus would naturally live to the left of their values.

If keys to be destructured also went on the left then you could get collisions with those names.

@muhanga @aartaka Presumably referring to this:

(let [{resp-body :body} {:status 200 :body "Hello World"}]
resp-body) ; => "Hello World"

I imagine it feels odd because the (binding) key / val are reversed from the data being bound. (`[{a :a} {:a 1}]`).

Not entirely obvious to me that that *couldn't* have been done in the other order. OTOH, it does feel natural to keep the bound names to the left in a binding form.