Timeline for If immutable objects are good, why do people keep creating mutable objects?

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Dec 9, 2014 at 21:51	comment	added	Giorgio		I read this comment of mine after two and a half years, and my opinion has changed in favour of immutability. In my current project (which is in Python) we are using mutable objects very very seldom. Even our persistent data is immutable: we create new records as the result of some operations and delete old records when they are not needed any more, but we never update any record on disk. Needless to say, this has made our concurrent, multiuser application much easier to implement and maintain up to now.
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Aug 17, 2012 at 16:19	comment	added	Giorgio		+1: I agree: after learning some Scala and Haskell, I tend to use final in Java and const in C++ everywhere. I also use immutable objects if possible and, while mutable objects are still needed very often, it is amazing how often you can use immutable ones.
Jun 6, 2012 at 11:27	history	edited	Gary	CC BY-SA 3.0	Grammar improvement
Jun 6, 2012 at 8:34	history	edited	Florian Salihovic	CC BY-SA 3.0	Changed expression for better understanding.
Jun 6, 2012 at 8:33	comment	added	Florian Salihovic		Yes, that's right.
Jun 6, 2012 at 8:32	comment	added	Den		Perhaps "known" rather than "popular" would be a better choice of word.
Jun 6, 2012 at 7:55	history	answered	Florian Salihovic	CC BY-SA 3.0