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Clojure Concurrency - Rich Hickey

ClojureTV · 72.6K views · 2012-12-17 · 2:32:39

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Overview

Rich Hickey's long presentation on Clojure and concurrency covers locking and immutability, then goes in depth on refs, transactions and agents. It ends with a multithreaded ant colony simulation demo.

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Seen as the definitive explanation of why traditional concurrency is hard and how Clojure's model addresses it, with some commenters crediting it with changing their careers.

Recommended by 5 HN people across 5 months · HN mentions 2013–2023

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cmiles74 · 2023-08 · Strong recommendation

Rich presented Clojure to our local software development group in 2008, I've been working with Clojure (both as a hobbyist and eventually professionally) ever since. [VIDEO] At that time I had been working with Java for years, both the conciseness of the code and the interactivity were flat-out amazing to me. It's saved me time and made me 100 times more productive. Congratulations to Rich, I am also extremely grateful for his work!

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dominotw · 2020-05 · Strong recommendation

I started to write a response but remembered rich hickey talk I went to where he lays out problems with java style concurrency Clojure Concurrency - Rich Hickey [VIDEO] Even though the talk is called clojure concurrency, first half of the talk is about the problems clojure solving in traditional concurrency. one my favorite talks I ever went to.

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cellularmitosis · 2023-04 · Recommendation

> I have yet to encounter a single problem that is solved more elegantly in Clojure than the equivalent Pythonic solution. A good place to start would be implementing Rich Hickey’s ant colony demo in both Python and Clojure. [VIDEO]

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