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[Noob here] Can someone explain to me the advantage of mutable objects? (self.programming)
submitted 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) by amon to c/[email protected]
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It makes the code icky and hard to debug, and you can simply return new immutable objects for every state change.

EDIT: why not just create a new object and reassign variable to point to the new object

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[–] DerArzt 3 points 1 day ago

For all the people in this thread talking about the inefficiencies of immutability, they may find this talk by Rich Hickey (the creator of clojure) interesting. Not so much as it shows that they're wrong, but more so that it's a good lecture explaining how we can build immutable data structures that address the limitations immutability in a way that reduces the overhead.