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by fredrikholm 1152 days ago
> I get the feeling it's super robust and reliable and low maintenance

The patterns defined by OTP are a work of art and tremendously rewarding. I've yet to use any other system/runtime that elegantly solves the amount of issues that come up when writing these type of systems up front.

The BEAM is a work of art. Nothing comes close.

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OTP itself is very definitely worth learning about even if you aren't using it directly.

Reading up on the Erlang GC was fun.

So was reading Kernel.ex (Elixir's bootstrap file)