[lll-o-lll]

I just don’t think this is true. Erlang has existed since the early 80s, open source in the late 90s. Joe Armstrong wrote his thesis in 2003. It’s been 2 decades, and yet reliable distributed systems are still something companies fail at consistently. The latest trend with kubernetes and web interfaces everywhere is, in my opinion, an example of these ideas never gaining popularity so we outsourced it to infrastructure (then realised it needed code and made a whole new class of network/developer, devops).

Erlang basically posited that “process isolation” as a building block was fundamental to reliable distributed systems in the presence of software errors. I don’t think that’s ever been really challenged, but the final solution we have today seems almost ludicrously inefficient in comparison. I just hope lunatic gets traction!