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by Lio 1620 days ago
Just for discussion would Erlang/Elixir not count as another performant implementation of green threads or would you not consider them mainstream enough?

Erlang has been scaling massively in the telecommunications industry for a very long time now even if it's not as popular as other languages.

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Erlang's green threads are considered lightweight processes. They only communicate through message passing.

When selling Erlang, don't focus on "telecommunications industry" but sell based on Whatsapp: http://highscalability.com/blog/2022/1/3/designing-whatsapp....

More: https://www.erlang-solutions.com/blog/which-companies-are-us...