I chalk this up to problems with Clojure's STM API specifically rather than STM generally, e.g. Haskell's STM implementation is considerably more useful. I go

I chalk this up to problems with Clojure's STM API specifically rather than STM generally, e.g. Haskell's STM implementation is considerably more useful. I go into more detail here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35805138 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35805138 and https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32759886 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32759886