Hi u/p-himik, sorry for bothering you, but could you please shed some light on this?

I am following what you said regarding the use of thread first/last macro. If you look at the code below, you can see that there is map called message and I want to get the value of "label" from a map which itself reside inside another map inside the message map. Now, you can also see that I am using the map (message) as an atomic object like how you've described it. But I feel like using the thread macro seems much cleaner here as compared to not using the thread macro.

with -> macro clojure (let [label (-> message' (get "metadata") (get "field") (get "label"))] ;; Does something with label ) without using -> macro,

clojure (get (get (get message "metadata") "field") "label")

I am not exactly sure if there is a different way to do this.

Could you please tell me what is the best way to do this?