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by nirvana 5169 days ago
This one particular benefit is not available in any other language, unless you start with a relatively low level language like C and recreate it.

Multi-threading is doable in any number of languages, but the problems inherent with it are why people move to concurrency.

Concurrency needs to be supported in the language itself.

You'd spend 20 years recreating this in C++ vs 2 weeks learning erlang.