My impression at least watching chatter over the last several years isn’t that it has a bad reputation but rather that people haven’t found a need for it, atoms are good enough for vast bulk of shared mutable state. Heck even Datomic, an actual bona fide database, doesn’t need STM it’s apparently all just an atom.
But I’ve never heard someone say it messed up in any way, that it was buggy or hard to use or failed to deliver on its promises.
But I’ve never heard someone say it messed up in any way, that it was buggy or hard to use or failed to deliver on its promises.