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Either I don't understand what you are saying, or this is not unique to Elixir at all? Or both lol

With Elixir/Erlang the various BEAM nodes can connect and call each other so the code internally tends to reflect the same approach.

The equivalent approach in most other languages would be to create a single web API and have everything talk to it via REST, etc.

It’s closer to thinking of everything having an RPC interface by default I suppose.

And not all CLI tools are isolated UNIXy bins you install. It could be an interface to a larger app running on the system like a database.

It's not. I keep factoring my CLI scripts to something that's very MVC. Everytime.

brightball is perhaps alluding that the BEAM VM environment itself is treated more as an operating system within an operating system rather than just another process in an operating system.

The BEAM VM is unique (at least compared to mainstream languages) in that everything is run as a preempted, stackful coroutine. The result is an environment reminiscent of an operating system.

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