alt Hacker News> There was a game AI talk a while back, I forget the name unfortunately, but as I recall the guy was pointing out this friction and suggesting additions we could make at the programming language level to better support that kind of time spanning logic.
Sounds interesting. If it's not too much of an effort, could you dig up a reference?
You're in luck - it's the first talk at this link, "The Polling Problem": https://www.gdcvault.com/play/1018040/Architecture-Tricks-Ma...
Mind you my memory may have distorted it a little beyond what it was, but it's loosely on the topic!