Recursion Without the Headache: Managing Game State in Elixir

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“Use recursion for your game loop.” Many programming languages support recursion, but for the vast majority of my career, I’ve avoided it. Even when it seemed intuitive, I’d get feedback from other developers that this was exotic. Elixir changes that and turns recursion into an idiomatic approach. The Game Loop Concept Every game has the same basic structure: Display…

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