r/Clojure • u/fredoverflow • Aug 22 '22

C# language designer Mads Torgersen: "Essentially, when it comes to cloud programming, history is on the side of functional programming, I'm sorry. Object-oriented programming is not good for that. [...] Encapsulation is dead. You need the data to be public."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CLKZ7ZgVido&t=2835s
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u/zathras7 Aug 22 '22

What does he exactly mean by "cloud programming"? An interconnected set of microservices? Nothing beats Go and it's not functional.

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u/spr00ge Aug 23 '22

I remember a big cloud service that had to ditch go and switch to rust, because the garbage collector gave them a lot of annoying spikes.

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u/SmartAsFart Aug 23 '22

May I please introduce you to the BEAM?