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by otto-edgar 1121 days ago
I think the point is that these data structures can be the foundation of a pure-functional style of programming.

You wouldn't drop these into an ecosystem where the programmers are used to dealing with mutable structures.

Now, whether using a purely functional language correlates with writing less bugs is a separate discussion, not sure what the modern consensus is.

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> not sure what the modern consensus is.

Too good a phrase to pass up!

Modern consensus is done by constructing a replicated log - an append only data-structure shared across multiple workers. It's what you use Paxos for, and it's what Raft streamlines.