STM and concurrency...sure those are "aspects" of Clojure, Clojure's biggest strength is that it's data-centric. The vast majority of the language is focused around manipulating hashmaps, vectors, sequences, etc, and do that in an efficient way. All the concurrency stuff is just icing.
So I really have to sit back and shake my head when the author says he's going to be as good as Clojure, then goes off into the weeds with custom syntax, STM and actors. Really? Why actors?
This would have been a much better article if it just left Clojure out of the discussion since whenever the author talks about the language he's mostly wrong.
So I really have to sit back and shake my head when the author says he's going to be as good as Clojure, then goes off into the weeds with custom syntax, STM and actors. Really? Why actors?
This would have been a much better article if it just left Clojure out of the discussion since whenever the author talks about the language he's mostly wrong.
And as always, lies, damn lies, and benchmarks: https://benchmarksgame.alioth.debian.org/u64q/compare.php?la... If you're going to use a phrase like "faster", at least spend some time to define the word.