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by moldavi 1300 days ago
That absolute claim is simply not true. That's like saying that people need to avoid shared mutability in every program, which simply doesn't make sense for a lot of programs, especially if you have a garbage collector already.

It's only a useful tool that has some nice qualities in some settings. It's not some underlying truth of the cosmos, it's just a situationally useful way to do things.