Clojure, concurrency and silver bullets

#1

Post by varunkumarm » Sun, Aug 22, 2010, 3:30 PM UTC

I'm actually confused after reading both the articles. Thought some discussion at HN may give some clarity.

Clojure, concurrency and silver bullets
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Re: Clojure, concurrency and silver bullets

#2

Post by ihodes » Sun, Aug 22, 2010, 5:49 PM UTC

Stuart Halloway (part of clojure/core and author of Programming Clojure) has a great response at the bottom of the comments:

Clojure’s STM API does not include agents, atoms, and refs. Only refs are part of the STM API…

…consider your article title: the reality is that Clojure provides a bunch of different bullets to handle different problems. And this doesn’t even take into account Clojure’s other concurrency-savvy features: immutable collections, vars, futures, and delays, to name a few.

Re: Clojure, concurrency and silver bullets

#3

Post by gstamp » Mon, Aug 23, 2010, 12:45 AM UTC

(Concerning the comments) Amazing how subjective people can be about this stuff. I thought the response from Stuart Halloway was well considered and fact based.