
S1 E4 - State with Russ Olsen
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Closure Closure Script - Isolation of Mutable Data Structures
An atom is just a container for a mutable value, which sounds remarkably like a variable. The way you update atoms is to send it at functions and the new function produces the old value from the old one. One of the other ones that you find in closure, but not closure script, is agents. Agents are something similar to queue-based systems; they execute things on a queue. And so an agent in a closure application running under the job of VM is a way... Or at least one of the ways that you affect the outside world.
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