transducers are sort of related to partial application and currying but it’s not
just a different name for that

better to think of them as a way to compose reusable/generic pipelined
operations independently of the data they’ll process

when used to transform collections/sequences of data there are no intermediate
colls/seqs in the pipeline so they’re more efficient

iirc there are some headaches when attempting to express transducers with static
typing, similar to headaches/tradeoffs of statically typed Rx implementations

Clojure isn’t statically typed so it’s not an issue for that lang