[dominotw]

I started to write a response but remembered rich hickey talk I went to where he lays out problems with java style concurrency

Clojure Concurrency - Rich Hickey https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dGVqrGmwOAw

Even though the talk is called clojure concurrency, first half of the talk is about the problems clojure solving in traditional concurrency.

one my favorite talks I ever went to.

[memco]

This version has the slides and video side by side: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nDAfZK8m5_8 might be easier to follow.

[atulatul]

What are his thoughts on Erlang? (I have not finished the talk video yet.)

[mac01021]

That it contains many good ideas but the lack of shared memory and the poor sequential performance leave a lot to be desired.