Clojure - Rationale

Rich Hickey · 2 Jan 2018 · clojure.org ↗

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Pervasive unmoderated mutation has to go if programs are to be concurrent.

Their wordsIt reflects the reality that, for the concurrent programming future, pervasive, unmoderated mutation simply has to go.

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Object orientation is overrated: it was born of simulation and is now applied everywhere, including where it does not fit.

Their wordsBorn of simulation, now used for everything, even when inappropriate

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Mutable stateful objects are the new spaghetti code: hard to understand, hard to test and hard to reason about.

Their wordsMutable stateful objects are the new spaghetti code

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Locking is too hard for programmers to get right over and over again, so the language runtime should do that part.

Their wordsLocking is too hard to get right over and over again

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