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by rdtsc 4494 days ago
Yeah Joe makes that point pretty often, and it was a nice revelation for me as well.

Actor concurrency paradigm has been copies by other languages and libraries. Not many managed to copy the fault tolerance and transparent distribution aspect. Granted there are other ways to solve that (OS processes, VMs) but still, it is interesting to learn from and think about.