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> The whole game state is stored in one atom: app/state and entities are again atoms inside the main atom (like in our universe). I don’t know clojure. Is this

> The whole game state is stored in one atom: app/state and entities are again atoms inside the main atom (like in our universe). I don’t know clojure. Is this normal terminology, ie to use “atom” this way? Seems like a bad name for the concept since the whole idea of “atoms” is that they’re indivisible (back when physics thought they were indivisible).

ertian 2y ago
They're called atoms because operations on them are atomic, I think.
rzzzt 2y ago
Atomic types appear in Java as well, this looks very much like an AtomicReference from a distance: https://clojure.org/reference/atoms https://clojure.org/reference/atoms