UUID, as the name implies, is used for identifiers - You know this.

These use-cases you're implying seem to be the real problem.

unreadable title - jesus! :P

it's sort of funny - I expect Java in the browser not to work well (as it didn't, historically)... And sure enough - the site returns a 502 error :P

A self fulfilling prophecy.

provocative blanket statements like "the real world is immutable" (or otherwise) aren't correct, nor healthy.

Some problems are more easily dealt with using tools like immutability, or mutation for that matter.

as with all things in software - it depends.

> The root cause of bad software has less to do with specific engineering choices, and more to do with how development projects are managed.

...While I do agree that "project-management" is important, I think the tools we are using today are really underpowered to deal with complexity/human-error - Which is the bigger problem IMO.

I have a beef with the title of this library...

When people write "persons", my head starts spinning.

When making such a distinction, people refers to a group en masse, while persons refers to a collection of individuals, emphasizing their actions as individuals as opposed to as a whole.

YES - thank you!

My clients get to render their own html - it's not really that bad if you bundle, split and cache the code.

Fear-mongering?