Discussion about uses for Agent Processes

[OvermindDL1]

@accuser

For me it is essentially a separation of concerns. I realise that an Agent is effectively a specialised GenServer, and I could put all the code in one Module, but I find this approach helpful.

I’m actually quite curious as to how it is used. A GenServer passes a single state argument to all callbacks, which seems no different from a pid for an agent, you can pass both sets to functions to mutate the data within and return it, it just seems like a lot of overhead and extra code so I am curious as to the benefit?