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by lispisok 613 days ago
Maps arent nearly as problematic in clojure because data is immutable by default on top of the functional paradigm where your program is basically a big composition of functions and the language is built around using maps. In Python I largely agree with the author. In clojure I love my maps.

Here is Rich Hickey with an extreme counter example although I would argue he's really demonstrating against getters and setters. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aSEQfqNYNAc