@kasdeya from that angle, malli and spec are better choices than schema, since they make it more natural to define schemas independently of your functions.

that said, schema can be more powerful in certain cases — for example if you need to define schemas for protocol definitions. so it's not that schema is bad, it just takes a different approach.

@kasdeya one thing worth considering: try to keep your schema declarations separate from your function definitions. ideally your function code stays plain idiomatic Clojure, and the schemas live alongside it (or even in a separate namespace).

if your functions stay "normal," you can use standard Clojure tooling like clojure-lsp, editor's jump-to-definition, etc. — all of which just works out of the box. once you start adding schema macros into your defns, some of that tools can get confused.