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Clojure’s Concurrency: Futures and Agents in Harmony

I’ve previously written on the wonders of Clojure’s agents, giving the programmer a wonderfully easy way of writing asynchronous code with very little effort. Here’s a slightly more complex example for those wanting more context. Combining Futures and Agents We’ll … Continue reading

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00 (agent) – Clojure’s Concurrent Agents in action

or Clojure’s concurrency agents – a simple example Clojure has some fantastic concurrency idioms. Agents are but one example of what’s available to the JVM lisper — alongside refs, atoms and vars — that make concurrent programming very easy. I … Continue reading

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