Challenging Clojure in Common Lisp (2014)
STM and concurrency...sure those are &quot;aspects&quot; of Clojure, Clojure&#x27;s biggest strength is that it&#x27;s data-centric. The vast majority of the language is focused around manipulating hashmaps, vectors, sequences, etc, and do that in an efficient way. All the concurrency stuff is just icing.<p>So I really have to sit back and shake my head when the author says he&#x27;s going to be as good as Clojure, then goes off into the weeds with custom syntax, STM and actors. Really? Why actors?<p>This would have been a much better article if it just left Clojure out of the discussion since whenever the author talks about the language he&#x27;s mostly wrong.<p>And as always, lies, damn lies, and benchmarks: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;benchmarksgame.alioth.debian.org&#x2F;u64q&#x2F;compare.php?lang=clojure&amp;lang2=sbcl" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;benchmarksgame.alioth.debian.org&#x2F;u64q&#x2F;compare.php?la...</a> If you&#x27;re going to use a phrase like &quot;faster&quot;, at least spend some time to define the word.