Clojure has libraries that implement monads, but these aren't often used for threading state. I can't quite place my finger on why, but in Clojure I rarely find

Clojure has libraries that implement monads, but these aren't often used for threading state. I can't quite place my finger on why, but in Clojure I rarely find myself reaching for something like the state monad, as I would in Haskell. Clojure tends to view mutability as a concurrency problem, and the tools it provides to deal with mutability, such as atoms, refs, agents, channels and so forth, are not mechanisms to avoid mutation, as to provide various guarantees that restrict it in some fashion. It might be that in the cases where I'd use a state monad in Haskell, in Clojure I might instead use an atom. They're in no way equivalent, but they have some overlapping use-cases.