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Have one process block on waiting for user keyboard input and send the keyboard input to your main process for actual reaction. That way the input is only blocking a completely separate process and not your main worker process.

Indeed cool. I've been spending decent chunk of time exploring Elixir, Phoenix and the ecosystem as a whole, and I haven't had this much fun in a very long time.

We have a web application developed in elixir, it's really amazing.

I highly recommend the book: the little elixir & otp guidebook. understanding OTP and the actor model will crank your elixir code up to 11.

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