[molloy]

> I've yet to find a language that can communicate between threads as performant-ly.

Minor nitpick: Erlang uses processes, not threads. Your comment doesn't explicitly say that Erlang uses threads though, so perhaps I'm being overly pedantic.

[ams6110]

But an Erlang process is not the same as an OS process, or even an OS thread. It's managed by the Erlang VM and is very lightweight.