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by macintux 2087 days ago
One of the great things about Erlang and the BEAM is that by designing a very opinionated language around concepts like immutability and ubiquitous messaging between lightweight actors, you can define the VM to support those.

So there’s this collection of features between the language and VM that support each other, and are generally hard to reproduce outside that ecosystem because they are so interdependent.