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by ninepoints 892 days ago
Erlang
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phinnaeus 892 days ago
> of comparable popularity
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throwawaymaths 892 days ago
It was more popular than go in 2009
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tomp 892 days ago
Erlang's processes might have similar semantics to Go's goroutines (green threads) but Erlang is a much simpler language, because it doesn't have shared state.

A lot of work went into optimizing Go's GC to be able to cope with concurrency.

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Thaxll 892 days ago
Erlang is not a popular language.
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