> No one ever discusses the implications of a system which is constantly, needlessly, insanely doing nothing but MAKING COPIES OF DATA.
see persistent data structure
see persistent data structure
How so?
> it doesnt scale
I take it that if many of Clojure's primitives are built using this data structure, it doesn't scale either? Yet some else mentioned how performant it actually is, given that it doesn't copy everything, but merely shares commonality.
Given your past comments, this isn't the first time you say something without knowing much about it.