Seven Concurrency Models in Seven Weeks

Wrap-Up

Clojure takes a pragmatic approach to concurrency (very appropriate for this Pragmatic Bookshelf title). Recognizing that most of the difficulties with concurrent programming arise from shared mutable state, Clojure is a functional language that facilitates referentially transparent code that is free from side effects. But recognizing that most interesting problems necessarily involve the maintenance of some mutable state, it supports a number of concurrency-safe types of mutable variables.

Strengths

For obvious reasons, the strengths of the “Clojure Way” build upon those for functional programming that we saw in the previous chapter. Clojure allows you to solve problems functionally when that’s the natural approach, but step ...