[bismark]

These are Erlang VM processes which are actually quite fast.

Re ugly: well, eye of the beholder I suppose.

[Ono-Sendai]

Here's a map in my functional language (winter). It's not parallel yet, that shouldn't affect the syntax though. (map is already manifestly parallel)

def square(float x) float : x*x def main(array<float, 256> a) array<float, 256> : map(square, a)

[nine_k]

Now make it efficiently parallel and show us the implementation. Then we could compare it with the Elixir snippet, which does just that.

[DoggettCK]

Not just efficiently parallel, but easily distributable to multiple nodes.

[scandox]

Exactly. With a tiny change you can be spawning those processes to any number of other nodes.

[kbenson]

Well, if we are putting forth other languages, here's Perl 6:

  sub pmap(Code $func, @items) {
    return await @items.map: {
      start { $func($_) }
    }
  }