Has anyone ever re-written Rich Hickey’s ant example using core.async?

the ants code is a demo of the stm, with core.async isn't connected to

https://www.ccs.neu.edu/home/turon/thesis.pdf is a phd thesis from 7 years ago building a system that ultimately combines concurrent ml style events (which core.async is sort of like) and an stm. So you get transactions where you can exchange messages as part of the transaction