What Rich Hickey thinks about design
Creator of the Clojure programming language and of Datomic. His rationale for Clojure is one of the few language design documents that argues its case rather than describing its syntax.
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3 dated positions, 2018, in their own words. Our reading of what Rich Hickey has said — not written or endorsed by them.
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Their wordsIt reflects the reality that, for the concurrent programming future, pervasive, unmoderated mutation simply has to go.
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Their wordsBorn of simulation, now used for everything, even when inappropriate
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Their wordsLocking is too hard to get right over and over again