Now that RAM is relatively cheap and garbage collection algos are pretty decent, immutability should be the default, because it eliminates an entire class of bu

Now that RAM is relatively cheap and garbage collection algos are pretty decent, immutability should be the default, because it eliminates an entire class of bugs while enabling benefits like "easy" lock-free concurrency, etc. Here's a project I'm excited about, I think it's the first fully-functional/immutable/declarative cross-platform GUI library in existence https://github.com/boydm/scenic https://github.com/boydm/scenic Still pretty rudimentary but has made great strides in a year and the demo is pretty amazing (especially given how NOTORIOUSLY gui toolkits are typically OOP/procedural/mutable) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1QNxLNMq3Uw https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1QNxLNMq3Uw Boyd Multerer got famous via Xbox Live.