[cgh]

Optimistic concurrency control is mentioned as a feature of Convex, the advertised product. But OCC is a common concern and has been for ages. In Java, the JPA standard specifies the @Version annotation which enables OCC on entity objects and it's implemented by the usual suspects like Hibernate. It's been around for at least a decade so I'm struggling to understand why this is being presented as some big innovative win, unless I'm completely missing something here.

[jamwt]

Article author here.

It's not new "in the world", but often new to our users, who understand it less intuitively than pessimistic locking.

Unless they're using Haskell or probably other very exotic environments with strict understanding of mutability and so on, they know Mutexes but not STM or other OCC patterns. So we lean heavily on explaining it. Not because it is original, but because it is unfamiliar.