Clojure Concurrency - Rich Hickey

Why HN readers recommended it

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.

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Video & recommendation details

Creator / channel

ClojureTV

Topic

clojure concurrency

Format

talk

Level

intermediate

HN recommenders in dataset

5

HN mentions in dataset

9

Recommendation years in dataset

2013–2023

These counts and years describe the included Hacker News records; they are not YouTube views or the video’s publication date.

From the original HN conversations

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• 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 …

• 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 …

• I like Rich talks and his main point for his invention seems to be: to get concurrency right. Clojure Concurrency [VIDEO]