What does the direction of the edges in your graph signify? And is it tap> —> logging, or is it logging —> tap>

good question: I consider direction meaning "X enables something related to Y". I think there would be some bidirectional relationships, but in this example it would be tap> -> logging

In theory, if you were already a pretty experienced programmer, you could start from the top of https://github.com/clojure/clojure/blob/master/src/clj/clojure/core.clj (after an initial introduction to a few fundamentals like what def means) and work your way downward in order to get a true tree rather than a graph. Not a very practical learning method, though 😆 (although that's how http://www.paulgraham.com/bel.html is intended to be learned since it's all built in itself, just working your way down the https://sep.turbifycdn.com/ty/cdn/paulgraham/bel.bel?t=1688221954& and https://sep.turbifycdn.com/ty/cdn/paulgraham/bellanguage.txt?t=1688221954& in parallel, which I think is really cool)

I think a lot of the 'tree' comes in when you start considering the larger ecosystem too, and not just the stdlib; for instance, the relationship between meta and stuartsierra's component, which also has relationships to Protocols and Records, and the general REPL experience, etc.; lotta connections 🙂

Fair! I just liked the thought experiment 😉

agrees agrees, very valid 😆 reminds me that its been a while since I've read Beating the Averages

It might be worth looking at the skill tree that exercism has, I think they have a learning path, it's been a while since I checked