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[cube2222]

It really ends up being called like this: ((elem "countries" (elem 0)) JSON)

Yours is more akin to (elem 0 (elem "countries" json))

and you can see that the hierarchy of the query is now inverted in respect to the json. This is what I like about the continuation based approach, a big query will be readable because it fits the data very well.

[michaelmrose → cube2222]

Is it more readable than

    (->> JSON 
        (elem "countries")
        first)

[cube2222 → michaelmrose]

This looks very readable and matches the structure of the json too.

To me it's basically the same readability wise with proper indentation.

Though with deeply nested data and a lot of map functions I think you'd have a lot of unnecessary (->> JSON ...). But those can probably be eliminated with another macro.

Also, there's the pipe function in jql which basically lets you do this.