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by macintux 3118 days ago
As much as I appreciate datomic, that's a poor conclusion to draw. git is objectively better than svn. Postgres is not objectively worse than datomic; there are things that datomic simply can't do efficiently.
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if you go back and read the git vs svn flame wars back when it first came out, people said the same thing. it happens every time there is a paradigm shift technology. the reactjs flame wars of 2013/4 were particularly brutal as everyone and their mom felt qualified to comment. the key idea here is that, at scale, immutability is just better, at nearly everything