[throwbsidbdk]

Is it not cool to call these things worker threads anymore?

Nothing wrong with the article but I'm getting annoyed by the trend to rename constructs and common patterns in new languages. Wasting time learning about Y in language B only to realize that it's exactly the same as Z in language A which you already knew

[lightbyte]

These constructs were designed for erlang as far back at 1986. They also are not just worker threads, they do not have a similar concept in most languages.

[ramchip]

Erlang processes are quite different from worker threads in other languages, since they're green threads (not OS threads). I'm not even sure if the expression "worker thread" was in common usage when the language was created.

[throwbsidbdk]

I didn't know Erlang had been around that long, I've only seen it pop up within the last few years

[lightbyte]

I think you meant to reply that to me. But yeah, erlang is very old. It was originally designed from the ground up to run telephony switches and other telecom-related tasks.