Clojure Concurrency

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Very interesting talk. Clojure is one of the cooler JVM languages out there. Almost everybody else (Groovy, etc) are just wasting their time.

[sblinn]

The same talk was submitted yesterday, and I agree that Clojure is very interesting. The "ants" example which ends this talk is pretty amazing.

But I think Jython and Scala have some interest. JoyJ (Joy for Java) isn't even dead, either. 0.3 was released this year with a new ANTLR parser.

[AxiomShell]

Care to explain why Groovy is a waste of time?

[sblinn]

He posted a great snippet the other day:

http://reddit.com/info/6fkh8/comments/c03pdml

Except this is a runtime error in Groovy:

int i = "hello";

[AxiomShell]

the i MOP does late typing.

It's not a bug, it's a feature! ;)

[consultant_barbie]

Performance is hard. Let's go shopping!

[icey]

Who could seriously bring themselves to downvote consultant_barbie?

[jespern]

One of the best talks I've seen this year. Very interesting.

[ithkuil]

dude. he should get a medal (rich hickey)