Clojure, concurrency and silver bullets(beust.com)
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Clojure, concurrency and silver bullets
http://beust.com/weblog/2010/08/19/clojure-concurrency-and-silver-bullets
I'm actually confused after reading both the articles. Thought some discussion at HN may give some clarity.
2 comments
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.
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.
(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.