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by digitalzombie 3265 days ago
> Java is basically a superset of Erlang at this point

Both VM are completely different beast.

Erlang is one of the few language that does Preemptive scheduling.

https://jlouisramblings.blogspot.com/2013/01/how-erlang-does...

It was built from the ground up to do concurrency in an arguably superior way than Java. Java can't do this.

edit:

Wow Erlang have a really active community from the notable people that are commenting here.