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If you see any factual inaccuracies in the substance of my conclusions, please let me know (for example, swannodette's updated information in a sibling comment is very useful). I will update my article to correct the distinction you mentioned.

> You can't blame me for disregarding everything after that mistake can you?

Yes, I think it's unreasonable and uncharitable. Any nontrivial piece of work is going to have mistakes. I was investigating a set of technologies that were totally new to me (React, ClojureScript, Om) and I had no friends who were experts in the subject matter to review the article for me prior to publishing it. Given that, I think I did a pretty good job actually. The mistake you mention has no impact on the article's conclusions.

My article was not attacking or argumentative, but a good-faith attempt to understand the prior article's claims better.




I also didn't mean that as an attack, disregard was probably the wrong word to use.

I meant that since it is indeed a non-trivial piece of work and the performance characteristics in question are very complex and depend quite strongly on the Clojure state model then it's reasonable to assume your conclusions are wrong because of the mistake made at the start of your chain of reasoning.

For example: "And it is hard to imagine convenient two-way data binding being built on top of immutable data structures." makes perfect sense if you are working in javascript, but is a normal and elegant way of doing things in clojurescript (and the cursor implementation in Om makes them incredibly convenient).




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