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by i_feel_great 2451 days ago
Post from the implementing engineer himself: http://erlang.org/pipermail/erlang-questions/2017-December/0...
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> Almost all of the bespoke code is written in Python, but the message-passing architecture of the system and the approach to managing availability was directly inspired by reading about Erlang (in particular your book).

This approach is pretty interesting - I’d love to read about implementing Erlang-style availability in other languages.

In my experience, the message passing architecture of the NHS system almost exclusively uses Paper.
and fax.
I have been watching this for a while: the Chez Scheme concurrency engine

https://github.com/becls/swish

Another in Gambit Scheme, but it hasn't been touched in a while:

https://github.com/mindpool/gambit-termite