8.2 Atoms, Refs, Agents, and Vars

In this section

• 8.2.1 Overview of Clojure's Concurrency Primitives
  Explore Clojure’s concurrency primitives, designed to manage state transitions in concurrent environments with atoms, refs, agents, and vars.
• 8.2.2 Atoms
  Discover the power of Clojure atoms for managing synchronous state changes without locks. Learn how to safely update shared state using compare-and-swap (CAS) operations with practical examples.
• Refined Coordination with Refs and Software Transactional Memory (STM)
  Explore how Clojure's refs and Software Transactional Memory (STM) simplify coordinated state changes, enabling atomic updates and avoiding common concurrency challenges like deadlocks.
• 8.2.4 Agents
  Learn how to manage asynchronous, independent state changes in Clojure using Agents, enabling non-blocking background operations.
• 8.2.5 Vars
  Explore the dynamic bindings and thread-local state management in Clojure using vars. Learn how to use vars for dynamic context configuration differences across threads with practical examples.