Some commenters seem to be offended by the way Bartosz presents his insights. Maybe some background is necessary. Bartosz has been pushing the C++ community for

Some commenters seem to be offended by the way Bartosz presents his insights. Maybe some background is necessary. Bartosz has been pushing the C++ community for some time now to think more functional and consider the excellent properties of functional languages. His posts are great and his talks are very enlightening. I recommend his recent talk "I see a Monad in Your Future" [0] and I'm looking forward to his talk at C++Now. Many of Bartosz' discussions focus on concurrency. It is one of the big and interesting problems we have at the moment. The criticism repeated here that "No one will ever be able to debug it" and the like is exactly what Bartosz sees in our future if we continue to program concurrent systems the way we do. He favours adoption of functional programming concepts to manage the complexity of concurrent systems. And I agree. If code similar to the code in his blog is not acceptable in production code, a code review should make sure it never reaches production. An informed discussion about the pros and cons of such code could ensue during the code review, new insights are gained and everyone walks away a better, more knowledgeable programmer. I suspect this is one of Bartosz main goals. [0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BFnhhPehpKw https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BFnhhPehpKw