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by jerf 5176 days ago
Remember, Erlang scales between machines.

Erlang's actually all about reliability. It's the secret decoder ring to its design, not the actor model or message passing, which serve as the ways it gets to reliability. (Even to some extent its syntax. Excepting comma-period-semicolon which is just dumb.) And one of the principles of Erlang is that you don't have reliability when you are running on only one set of computer hardware.

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lthread allows you to do so by message passing.